Jane Ferguson is a journalist from Northern Ireland.
She is currently a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in New York City, and has covered the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Ferguson also contributes analysis and reports to The New Yorker.
In 2015 Ferguson began reporting for the PBS NewsHour as a special correspondent. She covered the battle against ISIS in Iraq in 2016 and 2017, reporting from the front lines throughout the conflict, embedded with Iraqi Army troops, American forces, and Shia militia. Ferguson's reporting won a citation from the Overseas Press Awards of America.
In 2017 Ferguson reported from inside South Sudan on the South Sudanese Civil War and famine gripping the country. Traveling across the country by plane, car and canoe to both government and rebel-controlled areas, her series of reports for the NewsHour examined ethnic cleansing at the hands of government soldiers, rape as a weapon of war, and the man-made nature of the country's famine.
