Η αφηγηματική βιογραφία του Πύρρου Δήμα, από τον Νίκο Ευσταθίου / Pyrros Dimas’ narrative biography, by Niko Efstathiou

NIKO EFSTATHIOU.

I am a journalist, author, and public speaker from Athens, Greece with a decade of experience in print and digital media. I am currently a journalism fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford.

I was previously the Managing Editor at LiFO and a journalist and media strategist for Kathimerini, and my work has appeared on the BBC, NBC News, Al Jazeera, La Libération, and the International NYT in Greece.

My reporting covers a wide range of topics, from geopolitics to technology and from climate change to art. I have interviewed key figures in politics and culture, among them Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, and Amnesty Int’l SG Kumi Naidoo.

In 2022, I published my first book “Pyrros, on a first name basis” an intimate narrative biography of Pyrros Dimas, the most decorated weighlifter and Greece’s most decorated Olympic athlete, in direct collaboration with him, which became a best-seller in Greece.

I have also worked as the Editorial Director at REBORRN, and a Communications Officer for WHO in Greece in 2020-2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. I was previously selected as an inaugural Google News Lab Fellow partnering with WITNESS Media Lab and working on new media and human rights monitoring through citizen journalism.

I have been a presenter at TEDxAthens, Greek House Davos, and the NYT Athens Democracy Forum.

I speak fluent Greek, English and Spanish and am proficient in French and Turkish.

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