Global Greeks - Media
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Thalia Assuras (TV Journalist, USA) |
Thalia Assuras was born in Canada to parents who immigrated from Tripoli, Greece.
She has worked for CITY-TV, CTV, ABS and CBS.
She has filed numerous international stories, including reports from Iraq, where she covered the U.S. military action following the fall of Saddam Hussein. She also covered the aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Bam, Iran and the Kosovo refugee crisis in Albania. Thalia Assuras has also interviewed world leaders ranging from President Bill Clinton to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
She has received several journalism awards including the Marie Torre Memorial Award (2001), a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism, a Canadian MediaWatch Award and a University of Western Ontario Journalism Award.
Thalia Assuras biography at CBS Assuras at Wikipedia
Tina Fey (Writer/ Comedian, USA)
She has won five Emmys, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award. Fey is best known for her work on Mean Girls, Saturday Night Live (SNL), her impersonation of Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as well as her work on 30 Rock, a situation comedy loosely based on her experiences at Saturday Night Live. Fey is featured on the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair magazine, interviewed by Maureen Dowd and photographed by Annie Leibovitz. In the interview, Dowd notes that Fey’s acerbity comes from her Greek mother, who has what Fey's husband calls 'bitter, extremely caustic kind of stab-you-in-the-heart humor'.
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Tina Fey (born Elizabeth Stamatina Fey; May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian, actress and producer. Fey's father is of German and Scottish ancestry and her mother of Greek ancestry.
Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (Blogger/Columnist/Writer, USA)
Often known as "Kos", Moulitsas is the founder and main author of Daily Kos, a weblog focusing on liberal and Democratic Party politics, with more than 180,000 registered members. He is also a weekly columnist at the Washington D.C. newspaper The Hill and a contributing columnist at Newsweek. During the United Kingdom general election in 2005, he was writing elections analysis for the weblog of "The Guardian". Moulitsas has earned two bachelor degrees in Philosophy, Journalism, and Political Science at Northern Illinois University and a J.D. at Boston University School of Law. He has published two books: “Crashing the Gate: Grassroots, Netroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics” with Jerome Armstrong and “Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era”. In addition to political pursuits, Moulitsas, along with Tyler Bleszinski (of Athletics Nation), is a cofounder of SB Nation, a network of sports blogs.
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Markos Moulitsas Zϊρiga was born in 1971 Chicago, Illinois to a Salvadoran mother and Greek father.
Mike Galanos (Anchorman, USA)
He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in broadcast communication arts from San Francisco State University and started his career at CNN in April 1988 as a video journalist. In 1991, he left the network for his first on-air position in Reno, Nev. In June 1994, Galanos returned to CNN as a sports anchor. Galanos has anchored the network’s Sept. 11 memorial anniversary coverage, 2002 mid-term election coverage and military updates.
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Mike Galanos, of Greek origin, is host of CNN's Prime News on Headline News.
George Kourounis (Reporter/ Global Adventurer, Canada)
In January 2005, after filming inside the smoking crater of the active Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia, he became the first person to have ever filmed from the inside of 3 of world's most fearsome forces - inside a tornado, the eye of a hurricane and inside an active volcano. His efforts have been seen around the world on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Explorer, BBC-TV, CNN. Kourounis is also the host and co-creator of "Angry Planet", a television series that focuses on his experiences with extreme weather and other natural phenomena, airing in over 35 countries worldwide.
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George Kourounis, born in Hull, Quebec of Greek origin, is a reporter - though the word does not describe exactly what he does. Kourounis is a storm chaser and a renowned global adventurer. He has been filming tornadoes, storms and all types of extreme natural phenomena for 11 years.
Arianna Huffington (Journalist/Blogger, USA)
She is the founder of The Huffington Post, a leading left-wing online news and commentary website and aggregated blog, one of the most popular political blogs, with about 4m unique users a month. In the early 80’s Huffington was known as a liberal/left-wing/Democrat, the position she returned to once again in the post-90s. Huffington was an independent candidate for governor in California in the 2003 recall election, against front-runner A. Schwarzenegger. She has also co-hosted several radio shows in UK and the US -currently co-hosting “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program - and has written twelve books, including a biography of Maria Callas.
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Arianna Huffington (born Arianna Stassinopoulos, in Athens, 1950) is an author and nationally syndicated columnist in the United States.
Iason Athanasiadis (Photojournalist)
A graduate of Oxford University, were he studied Arabic and Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Iason has written for the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, the Washington Times, and Australia's leading current affairs magazine The Diplomat. From May 14 to July 10, Iason’s photographs from Iran will be shown at the Wodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington DC, in an art exhibit entitled “Children of the Iranian Revolution”. |
Iason Athanasiadis is a British-Greek writer, photographer, political analyst, and television producer who has contributed to a range of media, including the BBC, al-Jazeera, Channel 4, and specializes in the Middle East, covering also Central Asia and the southeast Mediterranean.
Bob Costas (Sportscaster, USA)
Costas has frontlined many Olympics broadcasts for NBC, including the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, and Turin in 2006. He has won nineteen Emmy Awards and has been honored as Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association eight times.
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Βob Costas is a New York born (1952) and bred American sportscaster, who has been with the NBC network since the early 1980s. He is the son of John George Costas, an electrical engineer, whose family came from Greece: his mother from Athens, and his father from the Greek island of Kalymnos.
Eleni Gage (Journalist, USA)
Her work has appeared in various publications including Allure, Elle, InStyle, People, Glamour, The American Scholar, Odyssey and The New York Times. She has a degree from Harvard University in Folklore and Mythology, specializing in Modern Greece, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in Creative Writing, Fiction. In 2005 her first book, the travel memoir North of Ithaka, was released.
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Eleni Gage is a journalist and writer, daughter of the Greek-American writer Nicholas Gage. She was born in New York, moved to Athens, Greece at the age of three and then back to Massachusetts. Nowadays she divides her time between New York and Lia, Greece.
Debbie Matenopoulos (Reporter, USA)
Matenopoulos attended Virginia Commonwealth University while living in VA, but graduated with a bachelor of arts in journalism from New York University. She has been a talk-show host, panellist, actress and producer for more than ten years, who began her career at MTV.
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Two-time Emmy nominee celebrity reporter and, since April 2006, co-host of Entertainment Television's fast-paced nightly entertainment show Daily 10, Matenopoulos was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1974, of Greek ancestry (her birth name is Despina, the name of her Greek grandmother).
Aphrodite Salas (Journalist, Canada)
She has also taught at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Western Ontario and is currently a part-time faculty member at Concordia University. |
Aphrodite Salas is an award-winning journalist who has worked across Canada and around the world. She has worked as a reporter, national correspondent, and anchor for many TV stations, as Senior Anchor at Global Quebec, as well a Parliament Hill correspondent. She began with the Reuters East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Kenya, and also worked in India, the U.K. and the U.S.A..
George Megalogenis (Journalist, Australia)
Megalogenis spent eleven years in the Canberra Press Gallery, from 1988 to 1999, before returning to Melbourne. His writing draws on the personal experiences of someone who grew up in a migrant worker family. Two of his most acclaimed books are "The Longest Decade" and "Faultlines:race, work, and the politics of changing Australia."
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George Megalogenis is a Greek- Australian journalist, political commentator and author.Megalogenis is a senior feature writer for The Australian newspaper. He is also a regular on the the ABC's political analysis program Insiders, where a panel discusses events in Australian politics.
John Mangos (Broadcaster, Australia)
He began his career as a journalist for National Nine News, and during his 14 years there covered State and Federal politics before becoming the United States correspondent. John lives in Sydney and runs his own media consultancy, Megisti Media, which was romantically named after the Greek island of his family's origin, Kastellorizo. |
John Mangos is a Greek-Australian broadcaster, who has been newsreader for Sky News Australia since its launch in 1996. He is also a host on talk back radio station 2UE and a regular on Sunrise on the Seven Network.
Costas Halavrezos (Broadcaster, Canada)
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Canadian born broadcaster Costas Halavrezos hosts Maritime Noon, a two-hour program at CBC Channel, devoted to delivering informative reports and interviews which explore issues that are of interest to Maritimers. In the run-up to the 2004 Olympics, he wrote and presented ten documentaries on contemporary Greece.
George Stephanopoulos (Broadcaster, USA)
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George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American broadcaster and political adviser. He was born in Massachusetts, the descendant of Greek immigrants. He is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week. Prior to joining ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and later became Clinton's communications director.
Nicole Petallides (TV anchor, USA)
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Nicole Anais Petallides (born in 1971 in Queens, New York) is an anchor for the Fox Business Network. Prior to joining FBN, Petallides was an anchor at Bloomberg Television. She had also served as an assistant producer for CNBC and she was a segment producer for Dow Jones Television.
Helen Kapalos (TV presenter, Australia)
During her five years with Nine, Helen's credits included reporting on A Current Affair and National Nine News, hosting Nightline and reading news on the network's Sunday program. Prior to joining Nine, she was a journalist with NBN, Nine’s Newcastle regional affiliate. There she wrote, directed and produced an award-winning documentary on the closure of BHP as well as several news specials. She also did stints as a late news presenter. |
Kapalos began her career in 1994 as a reporter at ABC Radio in Newcastle, before moving to Australias multicultural television network SBS (Spesial Broadcasting Service), after winning a national scholarship. She worked in several areas at SBS, including news, the network documentary unit, the indigenous cultural affairs program, ICAM, and the health show, Second Opinion. She joined Ten from the Nine Network where she was one of its senior presenters and reporters for five years.
