Inna Lazareva
Inna Lazareva is based in Tbilisi, Georgia, working as Caucasus correspondent.
An award-winning journalist, she was previously Africa correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Cameroon and has reported from Central African Republic, South Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. Her freelance work has been published by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, TIME magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and others.
In 2019, she published a months-long investigation, exposing the brutal practice of 'breast ironing' taking place in the UK. Her reports for The Guardian led to the issue being debated in UK parliament, more victims coming forward and the Crown Prosecution Service changing its legal guidelines, adding a punishment of up to ten years in prison for perpetrators of the crime.
An investigative journalist, Inna also works as a TV field producer and researcher. In 2017 and 2018, she worked on two long-form investigative documentaries into the sex abuse scandal by United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic for Sweden's SVT (Mission: Investigate), US's PBS Frontline and UK's Channel 4. The Swedish documentary won 'Global Investigation of the Year' award at the British Journalism Awards in 2017, among other awards.
She began her career in the UK and the Middle East, specialising in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spent four years covering the region as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Between 2013 and 2016, she also produced and hosted her own fortnightly radio show for TLV1 FM. Previously she worked as a political analyst in the UK.
Inna was twice selected for a reporting fellowship with the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). In 2019, she was a finalist for International Journalist of the Year by One World Media, as well as for a Children in Conflict Reporting Award for her work in northern Uganda. She was also long-listed in the 2019 Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism.
She speaks five languages and has an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London.
Inna can be contacted on InnaLazNews@gmail.com
An award-winning journalist, she was previously Africa correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Cameroon and has reported from Central African Republic, South Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. Her freelance work has been published by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, TIME magazine, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and others.
In 2019, she published a months-long investigation, exposing the brutal practice of 'breast ironing' taking place in the UK. Her reports for The Guardian led to the issue being debated in UK parliament, more victims coming forward and the Crown Prosecution Service changing its legal guidelines, adding a punishment of up to ten years in prison for perpetrators of the crime.
An investigative journalist, Inna also works as a TV field producer and researcher. In 2017 and 2018, she worked on two long-form investigative documentaries into the sex abuse scandal by United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic for Sweden's SVT (Mission: Investigate), US's PBS Frontline and UK's Channel 4. The Swedish documentary won 'Global Investigation of the Year' award at the British Journalism Awards in 2017, among other awards.
She began her career in the UK and the Middle East, specialising in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and spent four years covering the region as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Between 2013 and 2016, she also produced and hosted her own fortnightly radio show for TLV1 FM. Previously she worked as a political analyst in the UK.
Inna was twice selected for a reporting fellowship with the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). In 2019, she was a finalist for International Journalist of the Year by One World Media, as well as for a Children in Conflict Reporting Award for her work in northern Uganda. She was also long-listed in the 2019 Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism.
She speaks five languages and has an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London.
Inna can be contacted on InnaLazNews@gmail.com
