Renee Ferguson

Renee Ferguson 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 [United States presidential election|2020 Presidential election], she publicly endorsed Pete Buttigieg and his campaign.