Natalia Antelava

Natalia Antelava (Tbilisi, Georgia) is co-founder of Coda Story. She is an Emmy-nominee and award winning journalist. Natalia leads the editorial team working on Coda’s Disinformation Crisis edition, which provides in-depth, multimedia and often experimental reporting on how “fake news” and propaganda affects lives in the former Soviet Union and Europe. Natalia started her career freelancing in West Africa, has written for the Guardian, Forbes Magazine and the New Yorker among others and has been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and most recently India. She has reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan and her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards.

Natalia Antelava was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Coda Story’