With the scars still visible on his body 50 years after Turkey invaded Cyprus, Angelos Vougioukas, a member of the Panhellenic Association of Cyprus Fighters of 1974, looks back on the crucial first hours of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, and the 99 days he spent as a prisoner of the Turkish forces.
Overtourism is already a reality on many Greek islands, and appears to be largely responsible for making existing water scarcity more severe.
Child obesity is a big, and growing problem, across the world and certainly in Greece. Among children ages up to 5, 13.6% are either overweight or obese. Among those aged 5-7, this shoots up to 43%.
A Turkish parliamentary commission has approved a bill aimed at regulating the country’s large stray dog population, a move that has raised concerns among animal rights advocates who fear many of the dogs would be killed or end up in neglected and overcrowded shelters.
A veteran hotelier in Athens used to say, “Tourism is like a storm; for three years you might ride high on the waves and for the next two, you struggle to keep your head above water.”
Air raid sirens wailed across Cyprus’ ethnically-split capital Nicosia at dawn on Saturday as Greek Cypriots mourned, and Turkish Cypriots celebrated 50 years since Turkey invaded part of the island in response to a brief Greek-inspired coup.
On Oinousses, children don’t eat fish. Despite how contradictory that might sound, it seems many children on this eastern Aegean island turn their noses up at fresh fish – and its excellent Omega-3 content – opting instead for red meat and sweets.
Dressed in white robes and colourful tunics, devotees of polytheism each year honour gods on Mount Olympus with ceremonies they say can revive the ethos, rituals and lifestyle of the ancient Greeks.
Once a bustling hub, Nicosia International Airport has stood deserted for the past 50 years, a still enduring symbol of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus half a century ago following a brief Greek-inspired coup.
Yannis Asimakopoulos has worked as a food delivery driver in Athens for 17 years and cannot recall a hotter summer as a new heatwave gripped Greece this week.
The gods must be angry – or just laughing at the hubris of humanity. Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 3-meter-tall aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the town of Progreso, Yucatan.
Under the sweltering Turkish sun, tourists wander through sets that recreate Ottoman and Byzantine-era castles, take selfies with actors in traditional Ottoman costumes and watch horseback stunt performances.
Yannis Rossopoulos boards the last ship leaving Piraeus’ Gate E8 for the islands of the Saronic Gulf on the evening of July 6.
When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The fifth annual Empress Theophano Award is being awarded to the Special Olympics organization, a global movement to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities.
After nearly an hour of grappling with his opponent under the blazing sun, Turkey’s “Tireless Wrestler” was crowned the winner of the 663rd Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Championships.
Even the pure white marble statues of Konstantinos and Evangelis Zappas on either side of the grand entrance were glowing in the afternoon June sun.
The Hellenic Parliament welcomed high school students from Greece, Cyprus and the diaspora who participated in the 28th annual Youth Parliament that took place this week and concluded with a student panel discussion on democracy at the Parliament’s plenary. The annual event has given these 10th and 11th-grade students a chance to voice their concerns, […]
A new space observatory in Cyprus looks like it just uncloaked itself on the set of a sci-fi movie and is ready for takeoff.
Kathimerini was one of the main participants in the seminar on “Investigative Journalism, Innovation and Disinformation: New Perspectives in the Media” held on June 11 by the Department of Communication and Mass Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA).
During the conference, the importance of investigative journalism and innovative approaches that strengthen the digital transformation of the media were highlighted, while tools and journalistic practices were proposed to combat disinformation.
At the start of the conference, IQ Media, a European hub for supporting the digital transformation of news organizations, was presented by the project coordinator and professor in the Department of Communication and Media at EKPA Konstantinos Mourlas and Catherine Sotirakou, director of IQ Media Hub at EKPA.
The aim of the program is to support the digital transformation of news organizations, upgrade the digital skills of media professionals and promote cross-border collaborations.
“The New Technologies Laboratory of EKPA has invested in recent years in new scientific fields of communication. Specifically, in data journalism, in artificial intelligence and its applications in journalistic practice, in the utilization of new business models and in the personalization of content and the targeting of readers based on their preferences,” said Mourlas.
“With the IQ Media project we set a high goal… To transfer this knowledge to professional journalists in order to improve the quality of reporting in the media by leveraging new digital practices but also to lead media organizations in a digital transformation that offers new business possibilities and financing opportunities,” he added.
He also noted that “our scientific presence and recognition of our work is reflected in the actions of disseminating our results through the IQ Media project, while ideas for the commercial exploitation of our new products and ideas are slowly starting to mature within the context of the project.”
For her part, Sotirakou emphasized that “the objective of the hub is to bring the academic community together with the news organizations, so that both the research produced and the innovative artificial intelligence applications that we build in the Department of Communication and Media do not stay in the drawers, but they become useful tools in newsrooms in Greece and abroad. The seminar marked the beginning of a series of free educational activities on artificial intelligence, new business models and marketing, which will be addressed to professional journalists from Greece and the other countries participating in the hub.”
Thodoris Giaouzis, head of customer relationship management at Kathimerini, presented the features of the subscription service of kathimerini.gr, a pioneering development for the Greek media landscape, since the adoption of digital subscriptions in Greece, unlike abroad, was nascent, with many publications relying primarily on advertising revenue. He explained the development process of the platform and how readers can access exclusive content, ensuring a browsing experience enriched with cutting-edge technology.
“I had the pleasure of speaking at the IQ Media Hub kickoff, sharing insights from kathimerini.gr’s journey toward the introduction of a reader’s revenue model. Together with other speakers, we discussed the challenges that news publishers are facing these days, such as the need for trustworthy investigative journalism, the use of AI in news production and revenue diversification through the introduction of subscription models. As kathimerini.gr, we want to strengthen our collaboration with IQ Media Hub and academic institutions in order to inform students and young graduates about the evolution of digital news publishing,” he noted.
Kathimerini’s investigative journalist Yiannis Papadopoulos shared his valuable experience in a panel discussion on “Investigative Journalism and Innovation,” about the value of research in highlighting complex issues, underlining at the same time the need to cross-reference the final information with the aim of credibility.
“Journalism is evolving, it now has new media, platforms and tools at its disposal. But this does not change the way of work, how a journalist must filter and evaluate information, how he must approach sources and delve into the issues he deals with. The conference gave us the opportunity to highlight this and exchange experiences with other journalists. For the students, I think it served as a source of inspiration and gave them a first glimpse of what they will encounter in the newsroom,” said Papadopoulos.
Kathimerini was one of the main participants in the seminar on “Investigative Journalism, Innovation and Disinformation: New Perspectives in the Media” held on June 11 by the Department of Communication and Mass Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA).
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