Honor for Trustee Jane Ferguson ’04

Jane Ferguson ’04, a Board of Trustees member, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism. The prize honors the legacy of Neal Conan, an American radio journalist who spent nearly four decades at National Public Radio, including as host of Talk of the Nation, and recognizes the contributions of a “mid-career journalist who is doing extraordinary work in the spirit of the public good.”

Currently a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour covering war, politics, and U.S. foreign policy; a contributor to The New Yorker; and the McGraw Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, Ferguson has reported from conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. She is author of the book No Ordinary Assignment, A Memoir.

Previously, Ferguson has received the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting, an Emmy Award for News and Documentary, a Peabody Award, and two Alfred I. duPont Columbia Silver Baton Awards. She was elected to the Lawrenceville Board of Trustees in 2023 and returned to campus this past winter, along with David Ottaway ’57 P’86 ’91 GP’24, to discuss the complexities of the current Middle East conflict with students at an all-School meeting.