1. Lara Setrakian is the CEO and Executive Editor of News Deeply, a digital media company that builds single-topic platforms that provide journalistic reporting, expert analysis, dialogues and opportunities for knowledge exchange on the issues they cover.
Lara Setrakian was instrumental in Bloomberg Television's live on-the-ground coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
Lara Setrakian was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business and one of Marie Claire Magazine's Women on Top.
In 2017 Lara Setrakian delivered a TED talk on three ways to fix the news industry.
Lara Setrakian gave an earlier talk for TEDxYerevan discussing her career as a Middle East foreign correspondent and five key lessons she learned along the way.
Lara Setrakian has been a frequent speaker on the future of news as a public service, through delivery models that are designed for the digital age.
Lara Setrakian speaks Arabic, Armenian, English, French and Spanish, and has studied Persian and Portuguese.
Lara Setrakian wrote about the systematic implications of such behavior and repercussions for the news industry, calling Halperin part of a bigger problem that needs to be fixed.
Lara Setrakian was one of several women who had been harassed by him working at ABC News and were mentioned in a report by CNN.
Lara Setrakian has covered the Middle East extensively, filing from across the Arab world and Iran.
Lara Setrakian covered Iranian presidential election, 2009 digitally, cited by several key aggregation blogs during the aftermath.
Lara Setrakian covered Lebanon's violent unrest in May 2008 and reported from Saudi Arabia during the oil price crisis that summer.
Lara Setrakian filed a report on a $3 billion collection of modern masterpieces in the basement of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and was the only network reporter with the US Navy's counter-piracy Combined Task Force 151 when it caught its first band of suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
Lara Setrakian headlined Middle East coverage for Bloomberg during the Arab Spring, and covered its aftermath including the latest ramifications in Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Bahrain.
Lara Setrakian was a contributor to Foreign Policy's blog: Mideast Channel with articles on Lebanon, the impact of media on the Arab Spring and the economics of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Lara Setrakian was interviewed regarding the impact of Al Jazeera on the Arab Spring by Foreign Policy's Parag Khanna.
Lara Setrakian contributed to Business Insider on Middle East business activities, political economy and global oil markets.
Lara Setrakian was named one of the top 9 most influential Young Professionals in Foreign Policy under 33 by The Diplomatic Courier and made Foreign Policy's FP Twitterati 100 'A Who's who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2011'.