Francisca Skoknic

Francisca Skoknic is the editor and a co-creator of LaBot, a journalism platform that started as a news chatbot. She is a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, previous director of Diego Portales University's journalism school and the past deputy director of CIPER, a Chilean center for investigative journalism. She has worked for several publications in Chile covering politics, economics, social issues. She has received the Excellence in Journalism Award three times (2008, 2018, 2021). In 2021 she also received the Lenka Franulic Award, which recognizes career achievement in female journalists.