International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Lachter is a speaker at the 25th ISOJ, happening from April 12 – 13, 2024, both online and in person at the University of Texas at Austin.
Efrat Lachter is an investigative journalist and a war correspondent for Israel’s Channel 12 News . Lachter has directed and produced more than 200 documentary segments on topics including human trafficking in Sudan and Israel, modern-day slavery in Malawi, orphans in Ukraine, internal political corruption in Israel, and a women-and-children-only village in the Kurd-controlled area of Syria. As the first female war correspondent in her newsroom, much of her work has illuminated the lives of women in conflict zones. A recipient of the 2022 Shimon Peres Center for Peace Award, she is currently a 2023-24 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.