Jane Ferguson

Jane Ferguson (born September 15, 1984) is an Irish-British journalist, special correspondent for PBS NewsHour and contributor to The New Yorker. Based in New York City, Ferguson reports for the NewsHour across the globe, and has contributed award-winning journalism from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Ferguson also contributes analysis and reports to The New Yorker. Early life and education Ferguson was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and was educated at The Royal School, Armagh before attending The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. She returned to the UK to study English literature and politics at the University of York. She spent 14 years in the Middle East, based at times in Dubai, Kabul and Beirut, before moving to New York in 2020 where she currently lives. CNN Ferguson was a contracted freelance foreign correspondent for CNN International from 2009 through 2011, reporting from the Middle East and Africa. Living in the UAE at the time, she reported to the CNN Abu Dhabi bureau. She worked alone, filming, producing, and reporting stories from Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan. In 2009 Ferguson travelled to northern Yemen to report for CNN on Houthi rebel incursions into Saudi territory and resulting Saudi airstrikes inside Yemen. The following year she returned to Yemen to cover the US and British militaries partnerships with Yemeni Government forces in fighting Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular, the Yemeni franchise of Al Qaeda. In 2010 Ferguson was one of the first foreign reporters to embed with African Union peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu as they battled Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab militants, returning in 2011 to cover the mostly Ugandan forces' "Battle For Mogadishu" from the front lines. Later that year she travelled to the North-South Sudan border and reported for CNN as fighting broke out and displaced thousands ahead of the country's official division later in 2011.