AHEPA honors John Defterios
WASHINGTON – The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) has bestowed on broadcast journalist John Defterios the Demosthenes award, an honor accorded to a Greek who excels as a media professional. The award was granted during AHEPA’s 35th Biennial Congressional Banquet. Defterios is currently group vice president of content for International Herald Tribune Television, a division of Fact-Based Communications (FBC), and the principal anchor of its award-winning flagship program «Global Economic Review.» Defterios has been in his current position since early 2000, helping increase distribution of the program to 148 million homes in 92 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and to 24 of the world’s leading airlines. «I am deeply honored to receive the Demosthenes award. This ceremony has special meaning as the other honorees include President George W. Bush, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and some of the brave men and women who, on September 11, put their lives in peril to ensure the safety of their fellow citizens,» said Defterios. «It is also a recognition of what – in our short history – we have accomplished at FBC and International Herald Tribune Television.» Defterios has 17 years of broadcast journalism experience as anchor, correspondent and special series producer, most recently with CNN Financial News in London and New York. Previously, he was anchor of the top-rated morning business program, «Ahead of the Curve,» on CNN in New York and anchor of «World Business Today» in London for CNN International. Prior to CNN, Defterios worked for PBS Television’s «The Nightly Business Report» as a Capitol Hill producer and reporter, special series producer, European correspondent and West Coast correspondent. He also managed the five-year coproduction agreement between NBR and Reuters. Defterios has covered some of the landmark events of the past dozen years, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the final GATT Treaty, the 1997 Asian economic crisis and Korean elections, the Gulf War and the Los Angeles riots. For the past decade, he has been an annual participant, as a media leader, in the World Economic Forum in Davos.
