Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: This undated handout photo provided by ABC News shows Martha Raddatz. For the first time in two decades, a woman has been tapped to moderate a presidential debate. CNN’s Candy Crowley will moderate one... (Associated Press) 
  
 For the first time in two decades, a woman has been tapped to moderate a presidential debate. 
  
 CNN's Candy Crowley will moderate one of three October debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday. Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS News will moderate the other two debates. 
  
 Lehrer will question the candidates during the first debate on Oct. 3 at the University of Denver, focused on domestic topics. 
  
 Crowley's Oct. 16 debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., will use a town hall format, allowing undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization to directly question the candidates. Foreign and domestic policy questions will both be fair game. 
  
 Another female journalist, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, will moderate an Oct. 11 debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky., between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. 
  
 The debate season will draw to a close on Oct. 22 with a foreign policy-focused debate moderated by Schieffer at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., a crucial swing state. 
  
 All the debates are scheduled for 9 p.m. EST. The commission said it will also launch an Internet-based initiative to educate voters before the debates about the issues that are likely to come up. 
  
 "We're pleased with the selection of the moderators by the debate commission, and look forward to vigorous and substantive debates this fall," said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. 
  
 Pointing out that the first debate will take place less than 10 miles from the sites of both the Aurora, Colo., shootings last month and the 1999 Columbine attacks, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence urged Lehrer on Monday to ask Romney and Obama during the debate for their plans to prevent gun deaths. 
  
 When Crowley takes the stage in Hempstead, it will be the first time a woman has moderated a presidential debate since Carole Simpson of ABC News, who refereed a 1992 debate between President George H.W. Bush, Democrat Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. 
  
 Crowley's selection came after three teenage girls from Montclair, N.J., organized an online petition drive to persuade the commission to pick a woman. More than 122,000 signatures were on the petition when the moderators were announced Monday. 
  
 "Women and men will never be truly equal in our country until they're one and the same in positions of power and both visible in politics," the girls wrote, noting that women will not be represented on either presidential ticket this year. 
  
 Backing up the call for a female moderator were Simpson, numerous newspaper editorials and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who took to Twitter on Monday to congratulate Crowley. 
  
 "Very glad that the Presidential Debate Commission chose 1st woman to moderate a prez debate in 20 yrs," Pelosi wrote. 
  
 Host of the Sunday political talk show "State of the Union," Crowley is CNN's chief political correspondent and has covered more than a dozen presidential candidates, according to her CNN bio. 
  
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 Reach Josh Lederman at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP ||||| Crowley Named Presidential Debate Moderator, First Woman in Two Decades 
  
 In an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates, CNN chief political correspondent and anchor Candy Crowley was named as moderator of the second of the 2012 general election presidential debates. Her selection as moderator makes her the first woman in two decades to be chosen for this prestigious role. 
  
 Crowley will moderate the only town hall-style presidential debate between President Barack Obama and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The debate will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 16 on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. The town hall debate will be the only format that allows undecided voters to ask questions of the candidates directly on foreign policy and domestic issues. 
  
 “As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate,” said Crowley. “Congratulations are in order as well to Martha, Jim and Bob. I am so proud to be in their company.” 
  
 “Candy’s brand of political reporting makes her the perfect choice for this role. Her special style of storytelling brilliantly connects what’s happening on the campaign trail to America’s voters,” said Sam Feist, Washington bureau chief. “We’re so proud that one of our own has been selected for this high honor.” 
  
 Crowley came to CNN in 1987 after serving in various reporting roles at NBC News and the Associated Press. She took the anchor chair of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, the network’s Sunday morning political hour of newsmaker interviews, in February 2010. In her role as chief political correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill. Her assignments have taken her to all 50 states and around the world. 
  
 In her career, Crowley has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney, among others. Since the presidential nomination of Jimmy Carter, she has covered all but one of the national political conventions. 
  
 Candy earned a bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. Follow Candy on Twitter @CrowleyCNN. 
  
 A downloadable photo of Candy Crowley may be found here (Photo credit: Edward M. Pio Roda / CNN): 
  
 http://imageselect.turner.com/download/downloadimages.aspx?id=7f970d93-ccd8-48bb-b644-e03a1333500b. 
  
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Student:
A 20-year-old boys' club is about to once again open up to women. CNN's Candy Crowley will moderate one of this election's three presidential debates, announced the debate commission today. The last time a woman took the lead was when Carole Simpson did so in 1992; Barbara Walters also took two turns, in 1976 and 1984. Crowley will helm the single town hall-style debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, on Oct. 16 at New York's Hofstra University. CNN reports on Crowley's chops: She joined the network in 1987, serves as chief political correspondent, and anchors Sunday morning's State of the Union With Candy Crowley. The AP adds that Jim Lehrer of PBS and Bob Schieffer of CBS News will moderate the other two debates, which begin Oct. 3. Martha Raddatz of ABC News will moderate one of the VP debates, on Oct. 11. Crowley's selection came after three teenage girls from Montclair, NJ, organized an online petition drive to persuade the commission to pick a woman. More than 122,000 signatures were on the petition as of today.