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About

Ilene Prusher is the founder and digital director of . This news academic partnership has led to dozens of journalism students having their work published on the MediaLab site and republished by many local news organizations, including WRLN, The Sun Sentinel, The Palm Beach Post, The Miami Herald and The Orlando Sentinel. Under Prusher’s leadership, MediaLab received a $100,000 grant from , a nationwide philanthropic initiative to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news.

Prusher is an award-winning journalist, author and lecturer who joined the staff of ÌÇÐÄVlog in 2015 after nearly two decades abroad as a foreign correspondent. After completing her master’s degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she chose to focus on international affairs, in particular on the Middle East and Central Asia.  As a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor from 1996-2010, she covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and served as the newspaper’s bureau chief in Jerusalem, Istanbul and Tokyo. She was Jerusalem correspondent for , a columnist and features writer for Haaretz, and a program host on TLV1 Radio. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Guardian and The Financial Times, Ms., CNN, NBC NewsThink, FiveThirtyEight, The Forward and Moment.

Prusher is also the author of the novel Baghdad Fixer (Halban Publishers, London, 2012; Trafalgar Square Publishing, Chicago, 2014.)

Courses

• JOU 3101: News and News Reporting
• JOU 4181: Coverage of Public Affairs
• JOU 4316: International Reporting
• JOU 4930: Covering a Pandemic
• JOU 4930: Covering Immigration
• JOU 4930: Covering the 2020 Election
• JOU 4930 MediaLab
• COM 4621 News Media Ethics
• COM 405 London Media Project

Recent Publications

Recent Articles

Publication in NBC News Think
Publication in The Forward
Publication in Ms. Magazine
Publications in
Publications in

The New York Times. Nov. 2015

Recent Video