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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — An SNF DIALOGUES webcast with Yorgos Avgeropoulos and the journalists, photographers, and filmmakers, who participated in the production of the iMEdD documentary "Parontes" (Present).
Isolation, fear, and the need to manage the biggest health crisis in modern history have shaped both the content of the news and how it is reported, in a year lived under the shadow of COVID-19. As part of the “Reflect, Reform, Restart” Journalism Forum by iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development), SNF DIALOGUES held an open discussion on Wednesday, February 17th at 18:30 (EET) between journalists and the public on the current state of journalism and the challenges facing the transmission of reliable news in the midst of a societal state of emergency. The starting point for the online discussion was the avant-première of the documentary “Parontes” (Present) by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, iMEdD’s inaugural documentary production.
A DIALOGUES webcast followed the film screening, featuring Yorgos Avgeropoulos, and a group of well-known journalists, photographers, and filmmakers, who contributed to the production of “Parontes”, and also collaborated with a broad group of contributors, for iMEdD’s multi-dimensional April 2020 project “Parontes”, engaging with each other and online viewers in a live discussion.
The discussion featured Elena Apostolidou (journalist), Fenia Chala (journalist), Sofia Exarchou (screenwriter, director, producer), Phoebe Fronista (journalist, producer, videographer), Marianna Kakaounaki (journalist), Yannis Kolesidis (photojournalist), Kostas Koukoumakas (journalist), Giorgos Moutafis (photojournalist, filmmaker), Yannis Ntrenoyannis (journalist) and Alexia Tsagkari (reporter, filmmaker).
The SNF DIALOGUES strive to tackle key journalism-related issues in the midst of the COVID crisis: from fragmentary access to data, both in Greece and internationally—even when data concerns human lives during the Pandemic—to cases of open censorship, to the public’s questioning or even denial of pandemic-related information, to media particularities and the new ways defining not only news dissemination but also the ways press professionals work with each other, which have evolved and accelerated due to the Pandemic.
Watch the DIALOGUES webcast, DIALOGUES “Parontes” (Present): Is the news on lockdown? at snfdialogues.org
The DIALOGUES are curated and moderated by Anna-Kynthia Bousdoukou.
*The opinions expressed by DIALOGUES participants are solely their own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) or iMEdD. Speakers’ remarks are made freely, without prior guidance or intervention from the team.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON, UK – Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark is set to marry her lawyer fiancé this fall in Athens, according to media reports – “after the couple previously postponed their wedding date twice,” Tatler reported, noting that Theodora, “who was born in London, started dating Matthew Kumar in 2016, with the couple announcing their engagement in November 2018.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.