Lara Setrakian is the Founder and CEO of News Deeply. Before launching her innovative media company, she spent more than five years as a foreign correspondent, reporting on the Middle East for various outlets including ABC News, Bloomberg Television, and Monocle Magazine. Her work has focused on the fusion of news and technology, and her first platform, Syria Deeply, was launched in 2012 to critical acclaim. TIME Magazine called it “The Future of News,” and Fast Company said it “outsmarts the news business, redefines crisis coverage.”
Setrakian has been recognized as an inaugural fellow with the Peter Jennings Program at the National Constitution Center and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Before her career in journalism, she worked as a business analyst with McKinsey & Company, specializing in finance and corporate strategy. A graduate of Harvard University, she is currently a Post-Doc Research Scholar for the Tow Center.
