previously been a regular Washington Week panelist. In December 2021, WETA subsidiary NewsHour Productions began producing Washington Week. In February 2023, Alcindor announced that she would step down to focus full-time on her job at NBC and writing her memoirs, saying that her final date as moderator would be February 24. Since its first episode in 1967, the program's announcer has been Paul Anthony. Notable personalities Moderators 1967-1968: John Davenport 1968-1969: Lincoln Furber 1969–1971: Max Kampelman 1971–1974: Robert MacNeil 1974–1994: Paul Duke 1994–1999: Ken Bode 1999–2016: Gwen Ifill 2016–2017: Amy Walter (interim moderator) 2017–2021: Robert Costa 2021–2023: Yamiche Alcindor Regular panelists Peter Baker Molly Ball Dan Balz Jeffrey Birnbaum Gloria Borger Michael Crowley (journalist) Jeanne Cummings Lisa Desjardins John Dickerson Major Garrett Georgie Anne Geyer John Harwood Carl Hulse Haynes Johnson Katty Kay Indira A.R. Lakshmanan Mark Landler Mara Liasson Peter Lisagor Neil MacNeil Charley McDowell Jonathan Martin Doyle McManus Amna Nawaz Jack Nelson Susan Page Martha Raddatz Philip Rucker Stephanie Ruhle Vivian Salama David Sanger Jake Sherman Alexis Simendinger Hedrick Smith Kayla Tausche Karen Tumulty Amy Walter Pete Williams Nancy Youssef Janine Zacharia See also Inside Washington Agronsky & Co. Gordon Peterson Reception Washington Week has received generally positive reviews from television critics. Barry Garron of Current wrote, "Favor[s] balance over frivolity." References External links https://www.youtube.com/user/washingtonweekGI/videos http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-audio http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-video PBS original programming National Educational Television original programming 1967 American television series debuts 1970s American television series 1980s American television news shows 1990s American television news shows 2000s American television news shows 2010s American television news shows 2020s American television news shows English-language television shows Culture of Washington, D.C. Current affairs shows Peabody Award-winning television programs