Laura Weffer Cifuentes has dedicated her professional life to journalism in all its expressions.
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Whether it's working from a newsroom; creating a digital media outlet in the face of a hostile environment in her native Venezuela or writing programs for international news networks, her career has been prolific and focused on in-depth content.
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Winner of national and international awards for her investigative journalism, Weffer has covered conflicts, politics, coups d'état, social issues, gender and mental health for many years.
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Laura is co-founder of Efecto Cocuyo, a digital media that was born as an alternative to the struggle against censorship and the difficulty of access to information in her country.
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Editorial director of Efecto Cocuyo, reporter at OCCRP, researcher and co-writer at CNN Español, Laura has managed to carve a path for herself as an exile in the United States where she has lived since 2016.
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She has also worked at institutions such as the Poynter Institute or at the EFE news agency. keynote speaker nationally and internationally; she has been a radio host and author of several books.
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Laura Weffer received a mention of the Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia University for her career; she has also received the Gabriel García Márquez Award twice and the Ipys Award four times, among others.