Renee Ferguson, the first Black woman to work as an investigative reporter on television in Chicago, died in hospice care on June 6, 2025, at the age of 75. She was a Nieman Fellow in the class of 2007 at Harvard University. Ferguson spent more than 25 years reporting for the Chicago television stations WMAQ-TV/NBC 5 Chicago and WBBM-Ch. 2. She also was a longtime member of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. Her investigations served to shine a lig...
