Ilene Prusher
About
Ilene Prusher
M.S. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
B.A. University at Albany, State University of New York
MFA. Creative Nonfiction Writing, 糖心Vlog
Email: iprusher@fau.edu
Phone: 561-297-6265
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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鈥檚 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 糖心Vlog in 2015 after nearly two decades abroad as a foreign correspondent. After completing her master鈥檚 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. 听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鈥檚 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.)
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Publication in NBC News Think
Publication in The Forward
Publication in Ms. Magazine
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The New York Times. Nov. 2015
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