Renee Ferguson
- June 6, 2025
- 75 years
About Renee Ferguson
Renee Ferguson, 75, American journalist (WBBM-TV, WMAQ-TV).
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|Renee Ferguson (August 22, 1949 – June 6, 2025) was an American news reporter and long-time journalist for WMAQ. She was the first African-American woman to work as an investigative reporter in Chicago. She won a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, and an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Award.
Life and career
Ferguson was born on August 22, 1949 in Oklahoma City, and graduated from the Indiana University-Bloomington in 1971. Throughout her career she worked with several networks, including CBS News in Atlanta, CBS2 in Chicago and NBC5.
She co-founded the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.
During the 2020 Presidential election, she publicly endorsed Pete Buttigieg and his campaign.
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