Lehrer, Ifill, Brokaw and Schieffer to moderate debates

(CNN) - Veteran journalists Jim Lehrer, Gwen Ifill, Tom Brokaw and Bob Schieffer will moderate the fall presidential and vice presidential debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Tuesday.

Lehrer, the executive editor and anchor of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," will moderate the first presidential debate between presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama and John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, on September 26 at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, the commission said.

Gwen Ifill, a senior correspondent for "The NewsHour," will moderate the first vice presidential debate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 2.

Tom Brokaw, who is currently the interim moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" and anchor of NBC's "Nightly News" for 22 years, will head the second presidential debate October 7 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

The final presidential debate - on October 15 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York - will be moderated by Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of "Face the Nation."