Inna Lazareva
Inna Lazareva is a British multimedia journalist who, as of July 2022, is based in Tel Aviv.
An award-winning investigative journalist, she was previously Caucasus correspondent reporting from Georgia, Africa correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation based in Cameroon, and Israel-Palestine correspondent. She has reported from a wide range of countries, predominantly in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, TIME magazine, The Sunday Times, Town & Country magazine, The Daily Telegraph and others.
She is best known for her in-depth 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.
Her other key reportage includes an on-the-ground investigation into the deaths of over a hundred children killed as a result of gold mining activity in eastern Cameroon, the persecution of LGBT athletes in Africa, and corrective rape of girls. Inna also worked on two long-form TV 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, and the PBS Frontline investigation won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award and was nominated for an Emmy.
Inna 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 while also freelancing for others. 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 2020, she was nominated for the Orwell Prize: Exposing Britain's Social Evils. 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 [email protected]
An award-winning investigative journalist, she was previously Caucasus correspondent reporting from Georgia, Africa correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation based in Cameroon, and Israel-Palestine correspondent. She has reported from a wide range of countries, predominantly in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, TIME magazine, The Sunday Times, Town & Country magazine, The Daily Telegraph and others.
She is best known for her in-depth 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.
Her other key reportage includes an on-the-ground investigation into the deaths of over a hundred children killed as a result of gold mining activity in eastern Cameroon, the persecution of LGBT athletes in Africa, and corrective rape of girls. Inna also worked on two long-form TV 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, and the PBS Frontline investigation won the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Journalism award and was nominated for an Emmy.
Inna 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 while also freelancing for others. 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 2020, she was nominated for the Orwell Prize: Exposing Britain's Social Evils. 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 [email protected]
