Lara Setrakian
Co-founder & Executive Editor
News Deeply
Lara Setrakian is CEO, co-founder and executive editor of News Deeply. She is an award-winning journalist. She spent five years in the Middle East reporting via television, radio and digital platforms for ABC News, Bloomberg Television, the International Herald Tribune, Business Insider and Monocle magazine. Setrakian is a young global leader with the World Economic Forum and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Government.
Session
The platform dilemma: how to balance truth, popularity and engagement
sessionMaria Ressa
Adriano Farano
Anna Belkina
Inga Thordar
Lara Setrakian
The media lexicon added some new vocabulary in 2016: post-truth, trolls, bots and fake news. Platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, were at the centre of a worldwide debate after the election of Donald Trump. Eight months later, we will check in on the relationship between platforms and news media. Lara Setrakian will be […]