Laura Hertzfeld is director of XR Partnerships at Yahoo! News/ Verizon Media Group. She recently completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, researching the intersection of art, immersive storytelling, and journalism. She won a sports Emmy for her work on several digital shows for NBC Olympics in 2016 and was previously director of Journalism 360, a community of immersive storytellers supported by Google News Lab, Knight Foundation, and the Online News Association.