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Who Am I?

I am a Journalist and Producer working at iMEdD (Incubator for Media Education and Development, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation). I am also a part time PhD researcher on Media Theory at the University of Durham UK, doing interdisciplinary research on Media, Philosophy and Language, focusing on how the Greek financial crisis has been covered by the Media since 2010, through a philosophical perspective.  I have been the Video Production Manager in VICE Greece (2014-2018) and a Senior producer and host of long-form documentaries for the show VICE Specials, on ANT1. I have been the creator of "Sounds Greek" on VICE, a show about Greek "underground" music, among others. I have been the PA/Producer of the BBC Athens Foreign Correspondent, Mark Lowen (2012-2014) and a freelance producer for the BBC and other international media (AP and The New York Times among them). I have been covering the Greek Crisis since Day 1. I have worked as the Chief Researche...

Media Researcher

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My PhD research ,  at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures in the University of Durham, aims to approach, through the theories of  Roland Barthes,  Bernard Stiegler, Derrida's deconstruction, as well as other theories related to media, semiotics and post-structuralism, the way media present reality and how 'mythologies', as Barthes puts it, were developed during the crisis, establishing a system of insufficient social understanding and putting at stake political thinking and the future of society in general.  Interests: Media theory, Digital studies, Semiotics, Post-structuralism and Language. Supervised by:   Dr Gerald Moore  (2017-Today) College Year in Athens Lecturer about the Greek Media during the Financial Crisis, title "Understanding the Media" (once every semester, in the course of Dr Ritsa Panagiotou) (2016-Today) Lecturer on "Narration in Journalistic Video", contribution for the National and Kapodistrian Universi...

Video Producer

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Producer (Production House) Production Manager (VICE) Producer/ PA (BBC) Producer / Fixer (AP, BBC)  Chief Researcher (WarZone documentaries, MEGA CHANNEL) Producer (Neoi Fakeloi, SKAI) FEW SAMPLES: (2014-2018) HOST-PRODUCER Agent Orange: Ο Έλληνας που Βοηθά τα Θύματα του Βιετνάμ Τα Πλοία του Κακού Είναι Τρελοί Αυτοί οι Αγρότες της Θεσσαλίας Oh My Gods EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Underreported Greece Democrisis Greekology The Vice Reports Vice Meets CREATOR of  Sounds Greek (2012-2014) Greece's million unpaid workers Greeks stage 24-hour anti-austerity general strike Crisis-hit Greeks chop up forests to stay warm Greece waste: Mounds of filth on an island paradise Interview with Greek finance minister (2013) https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-18496817/greek-crisis-talks-to-form-coalition-government-begin (2010-2011) The millions of Zakynthos   on a local corruption drama of a black hole in mun...

Writer

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Contributions for : Eleftherotipia/Epsilon  Kathimerini/Magazines LIFO NITRO FAQ 24h.gr Foreign desk of "Makedonia" newspaper (Thessaloniki) FEW TITLES: Interview with somebody who wants to sell his kidney (VICE, 2014) Toy Story: Music with Instruments for Children (E-Eleftherotypia, 2007) Athinaistan: About the Immigrant Ghettos of Athens (LIFO, 2006) Black Diamond: Interview with the infamous Guerilla Female Killer (E-Eleftherotypia, 2009) Fever: About Doxa Dramas football team (Sport+ - Kathimerini, 2008) New York: Capital of the World (Taxidia, Kathimerini, 2009)

GALLERY

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. . . Shooting for VICE Specials " Looking for Likes ", VICE Greece 2018 Image during Mark Lowen's broadcasting Live from Athens, for the BBC 2014 Shooting for the VICE documentary  " Agent Orange: The Greek Lawyer who Helps Victims ",  with lawyer C.Kokkoris, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 2016 Shooting for the VICE documentary  " Agent Orange: The Greek Lawyer who Helps Victims ",  "Peace Village" hospital, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 2016 Shooting for the VICE documentary " Agent Orange: The Greek Lawyer who Helps Victims ", Danang, Vietnam 2016 Shooting for the WarZone documentary on Cosa Nostra , Corleone, Sicilia, Italy 2009 Shooting an exclusive interview of an undercover Mafia chief for VICE documentary " The boats of Evil ", Italy 2017 Interview for VICE, Maximou Mansion, 2016 Shooting for the WarZone documentary " The Girls of Libe...