A war reporter and foreign correspondent for PBS and The New Yorker, Jane Ferguson has covered almost every major conflict of the 21st century.
Why you should listen
Born and raised in rural Northern Ireland, Jane Ferguson is intimately aware of the power of storytelling to overcome conflict and division. As a reporter for PBS and
The New Yorker, she has been present for and written about most revolutions and humanitarian disasters in recent history, including major conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. Throughout her career, she has worked as a frontline correspondent for CNN, Al Jazeera English, and
PBS NewsHour. She has won a Peabody, an Emmy, a Gracie, a George Polk Award and two duPont-Columbia Awards.
In addition to her reporting, Ferguson teaches a class on war reporting at Princeton University. Her memoir,
No Ordinary Assignment, was published by HarperCollins in July 2023.
