Lara Straatmann
Lara Straatmann was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist for ‘Back Channel Cooperation: How Frontex Helps Haul Migrants Back To Libyan Torture Camps.’
Lara Straatmann is a reporter for the political TV magazine MONITOR on ARD. She has been working intensively on European asylum and migration policy for many years. As a reporter, she documented the consequences of European asylum policy on numerous travels: she researched the situation in refugee camps in Turkey, travelled several times to the Moria camp on the Aegean island of Lesbos or spent weeks on a civilian rescue ship in the Mediterranean. In her first years as a reporter, she worked in current reporting at the public TV station NDR in Hamburg. Lara Straatmann studied political science, history and psychology in Bavaria, Manchester and North Carolina.
Shafagh Laghai
Shafagh Laghai was selected for the 2022 European Press Prize shortlist for ‘Back Channel Cooperation: How Frontex Helps Haul Migrants Back To Libyan Torture Camps.’
Shafagh Laghai was born in Iran and grew up in Berlin. There she studied journalism, political science and Iranian studies. Besides her studies, she worked as a freelance reporter for Deutsche Welle and travelled several times to Afghanistan and Pakistan for the station. In 2008, her traineeship took her to Cologne, where she then worked for the ARD Tagesschau. From 2013 to 2017, Shafagh Laghai was a correspondent at ARD’s Nairobi studio. In 2017, she was nominated for the Grimme Prize for her reporting from Africa. She joined the political TV magazine MONITOR on ARD in August 2017.Shafagh Laghai