Jane Ferguson, a seasoned war and conflict reporter for PBS NewsHour and a visiting professor at Princeton University, was teaching a course titled “War Reporting: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” last fall when the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7.
The 39-year-old Irish-British journalist has reported from Gaza and a number of Middle Eastern countries over her 15-year career. She had planned her syllabus to mostly focus on the war in Ukraine, but soon shuffled her course plan.
“I had lived in and covered that region and that conflict for years and years, but there part of me was watching something very new happen [in the conflict],” Ferguson told me. “I was watching my industry struggle to respond to an incredible amount of misinformation on social media outpacing journalism.”
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