Laura Zommer

Laura Zommer is Co-founder and CEO of Factchequeado. She is a recipient of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize Special Citation 2024, as well as a Knight Fellow with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and an Ashoka Fellow. For more than a decade, Laura was the executive director of Chequeado, the first fact-checking organization in the Global South. She also created LatamChequea, a regional fact-checking network that unites more than 40 media organizations in 19 countries to combat disinformation in Latin America. She’s president of the board of directors for SembraMedia, as well as a member of the board for La Silla Vacía in Colombia and a member of the advisory board of the School of Law at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. She’s also a former member of the advisory board for the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a role she held from IFCN’s launch until 2024. She has received numerous awards for her work as a journalist, including the Gabriel García Márquez Award in the “Innovation” category from the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericana (FNPI) and an award for “In-Depth Journalism" from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), which she won when she was just 25 years old starting her journalism career at the Argentine newspaper La Nación. Laura holds both journalism and law degrees. For more than two decades, she has also taught freedom of information classes with the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). She also teaches courses on fact-checking disinformation and discourse at the Universidad de San Andrés and other universities around the world.