Co-Founder, Disrupt Group
Shira Lazar is an EMMY nominated TV and Web Personality who continues to bridge the gap between traditional and new media and be a prominent leader and voice for the digital age. She covers the latest in digital trends, tech and pop culture on her blog- On The Scene– on CBSNews.com. You can also catch her as the host of, The Partners Project, the talk interview show profiling YouTube stars produced by her company Disrupt/Group. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Fox News Channel, CNN and IFC’s The Grid. An authority in the new media space, Shira also hosts and speaks around the world at influencer events and conferences including Mashable Media Summit, Mashable Social Good Conference, Ignite, Branded Content Summit, Twiistup, Women In Tech International, Banff NEXTMedia, Blogworld, 140 Conference, Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, Big Omaha, and SXSW among many others. She is also a member of the United Nations Social Media Envoy, a group of high-profile Internet users selected to inspire and involve social media audiences in the effort towards social good campaigns, including Malaria No More.
Shira’s extensive hosting work includes some of the biggest live-streams on the web from Awards Shows to blockbuster Hollywood premieres and current events–including, Live from the White House with Secretary Arne Duncan, The Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, The Independent Spirit Awards, Sex and the City and Twilight premieres among many others.
In addition to her work in live online programming, Shira has also hosted television shows including NBC’s 1st Look and Open House, DirecTV’s Havoc on the 101, and was a correspondent on CourtTV’s Hollywood Heat, Reelz Channel’s daily movies news show, Dailies, and Travel Channel’s Confessions of a Travel Writer.
Online, she has developed and hosted video content MSN.com’s first social media reality competition, The Tastemaker, Live Earth Video, This Week In YouTube, Yahoo!’s daily What’s So Funny, Condenast’s travel blog Jaunted, Movies.com, Hollywood.com, Mania! TV, Verizon VCAST and more. She has been the official video blogger for Internet Week NY, red carpet host for the Webby Awards and the first-ever Streamy Awards, and was named a “Social Media Maven” when she won Ashton Kutcher’s 24 Hours at Sundance.
A native of Montréal, Shira graduated with honors from Emerson College, and now lives in Los Angeles.
Twitter: @shiralazar
