Ilene Prusher is the founder and digital director of MediaLab@FAU. 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 Press Forward, 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 FAU 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 TIME Magazine, 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.)

Publication in NBC News Think

Publication in The Forward

Publication in Ms. Magazine

Publications in  Haaretz

Publications in  Time Magazine

'Killing a King' Examines Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.  The New York Times. Nov. 2015