Ellie Hochenberg

Ellie is a bilingual broadcast journalist and foreign policy expert with over 15 years of experience reporting from the heart of global geopolitical flashpoints. As a founding member and Chief Anchor at i24NEWS, Ellie led prime-time programming in both English and Hebrew, and previously served as Head of the Diplomatic Desk covering high-stakes diplomatic events and frontline conflicts worldwide. Alongside her broadcasting career, she serves as an adjunct lecturer at Reichman University’s Raphael Recanati International School, where she also earned her B.A and M.A. in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security. She is an alumna of the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, and her academic work focuses on the intersection of narrative as statecraft, perception as a security mechanism, and democratic resilience. At Princeton, she will examine the architecture of information through an ethical lens, exploring how to defend public trust and preserve shared humanity when truth itself is weaponized. Moving forward, Ellie seeks to reshape global policy by anchoring it in principled technological governance and the moral integrity of language itself, ensuring that communication serves as a bridge for human connection rather than a tool of warfare. While her professional life is dedicated to navigating and uncovering truth within complex global narratives, she is an avid beach lover who always finds her most grounding, wordless truths by the ocean.