PBS news correspondent Jane Ferguson injured in Ukraine war. husband, net worth

Jane Ferguson is an Irish-British journalist who works as a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour and writes for The New Yorker. Ferguson, who is based in New York City, reports for the NewsHour from all around the world, and has delivered award-winning news from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.Jane Ferguson was shot while covering the Ukraine-Russia conflict as she was near the location where award-winning documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed. Come down to learn more about Jane Ferguson husband, injuries, salary, net worth, earnings, and other details: 

Who is Jane Ferguson husband ? Is the PBS news correspondent married?

Ferguson, on the other hand, never revealed the dates of their marriage and kept it a secret. Her later tweets, however, proved that she was married, as she began referring to her boyfriend as Jane Ferguson ‘husband.’Ferguson is married with a supportive husband, and it comes out that she proposed to her boyfriend. Jane met her husband, Alex Makim, while working as a stablehand on her father’s farm.

 People stated that the couple married four years later, when she was 19, and moved to the Makim family’s 9,000-acre estate in Australia. They later divorced, and she then remarried Rainer Luedecke in 1994. Although she is not open about her love life, their relationship, in which they appear to be best friends, demonstrates how happy Ferguson’s life is with her husband. 

Jane Ferguson children

The couple had two children together, Seamus and Ayesha, but divorced in 1988. She later remarried Rainer Luedecke in 1994, and Heidi was born two years later.

Jane Ferguson net worth, earnings, salary, and all the ways she makes her fortune

What is Jane Ferguson estimated net worth in 2022? As a journalist, Ferguson has amassed a sizable fortune. Jane Ferguson has a net worth of $5 million, which is expected to increase as she continues to flourish in her field. Jane makes a living as a journalist and a contributor to The New Yorker. She is a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour and a contributor to The New Yorker. Ferguson, together with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, received the Aurora Award for Humanitarian Reporting in 2020. Ferguson will teach a course on war reporting as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University in the autumn semester of 2020.

She moved to Afghanistan in January 2021 and exclusively covered all aspects of the US pullout from Afghanistan, as well as everything that happened in the country with the Taliban. Without a question, she is one of the most tenacious, brave, and genuine war reporters who believes in uncovering the truth even in the most difficult of circumstances, and she has always succeeded.She has amassed wealth from her multiple sources of income, but she likes to live a modest lifestyle.

When did she start her professional career?

Ferguson worked for CNN International as a freelance foreign correspondent from 2010 to 2011, reporting from the Middle East and Africa. She was reporting to the CNN Abu Dhabi office at the time because she was living in the United Arab Emirates. She worked alone in Yemen, Somalia, and Sudan, filming, producing, and reporting stories.

Ferguson’s research concentrated on Al-Qaeda offshoots and franchises in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, as well as fighting that was not widely covered by US news organizations. When the famine in Somalia was announced in 2011, she was the first international broadcaster in the country. Ferguson covered the battle between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels in Northern Yemen in 2009.

Ferguson worked as an overseas correspondent for Al Jazeera English from 2011 to 2014. She covered key events such as the Arab Spring, the Afghan war, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the Syrian civil war while reporting from all around the Middle East. Ferguson was in the Kabul Serena Hotel on March 20th, 2014, when it was assaulted by Taliban insurgents who had smuggled weapons into the hotel. Ferguson was in her room when the militants slaughtered diners in the restaurant downstairs, but she was able to flee once Afghan security forces arrived and engaged the Taliban gunmen in a fire battle across the hotel grounds.

 PBS NewsHour 

Ferguson began working as a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour in 2015. She covered the struggle against ISIS in Iraq in 2016 and 2017, reporting from the front lines with Iraqi Army troops, American forces, and Shia militia throughout the conflict. The Overseas Press Awards of America recognized Ferguson’s reporting.

Ferguson reported on the South Sudanese Civil War and the hunger that ravaged the country in 2017 from within the country.

Her series of reports for the NewsHour involved traveling throughout the nation by plane, automobile, and canoe to both government and rebel-controlled areas to investigate ethnic cleansing by government soldiers, rape as a weapon of war, and the man-made nature of the country’s famine.

Ferguson was smuggled into rebel-held Yemen twice the following year, where her exclusive reporting revealed famine conditions among the populace as a result of the fighting. Her reporting from Yemen earned her a George Polk Award, an Emmy, and an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, as well as a Peabody Award nomination and a Livingston Award shortlist. Ferguson, together with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, received the Aurora Award for Humanitarian Reporting in 2020. Ferguson will teach a course on war reporting as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University in the autumn semester of 2020.

Jane Ferguson was injured while covering the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, while filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed nearby.

While covering the Ukraine-Russia conflict, an American journalist was shot. Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times and other publications, was purportedly slain by Russian soldiers in Irpin, a flashpoint town west of Kyiv. Juan Arredondo, a photographer from the United States, was injured. According to local police officials, Renaud, 51, was hit in the neck and killed while working on Sunday after coming under Russian fire. This could not be independently corroborated.

Jane Ferguson, a reporter for PBS Newshour who was nearby when Renaud was killed, tweeted: “Just left roadside spot near Irpin where body of American journalist Brent Renaud lay under a blanket. Ukrainian medics could do nothing to help him by that stage. Outraged Ukrainian police officer: ‘Tell America, tell the world, what they did to a journalist.’”

“Irpen, and its surrounding villages, are seeing an absolute humanitarian disaster. Russian soldiers occupied Vorzel, Hostomel, Zabucha and the Mylhailivka-Rubezhivka and won’t let residents leave their own homes,” the city’s former mayor said, according to a group of Ukrainian journalists. The former mayor described Russian forces shooting at homes and shelling hospitals.