Nikolia Apostolou
Verified- Journalist, Freelance
- Resource Center Director, Global Investigative Journalism Network
Athens, Greece
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GIJN Resource Center’s Top Guides and Tipsheets for 2025
This year, GIJN’s Resource Center team produced a wide variety of guides on everything from investigating climate change to reporting on AI, from digging into Chinese companies to probing evidence of war crimes, and from covering food insecurity to looking at land conflict. The Resource Center is full of material relevant for investigative reporters. The archive now holds more than 2,000 items in 14 languages — from tipsheets and guides to instructional videos.
Top 10 Guides and Tipsheets from GIJN’s Resource Center in 2022
Editor's Pick | GIJN’s Resource Center is a leading source of tipsheets, videos, and guides on investigative and data journalism, media fundraising, freelancing, security, and more. It’s used by journalists in 140 countries per day in English and a dozen other languages. The Center’s digital library catalogs more than 1,500 items on subjects as diverse as climate change, satellite imagery, organized crime, elections, and property records.
ویڈیو یونٹ کیسے ترتیب دیا جائے: چھوٹی تنظیموں کے لیے ایک جی آئی جے این گائیڈ
اردو | جب میں ایک دہائی سے زیادہ عرصہ پہلے گریڈ اسکول مکمل کر رہی تھی، تو ویڈیو بنانا اگلی بڑی چیز تھی۔ دنیا بھر میں، خبر رساں ادارے ویڈیو کہانیاں تیار کرنے کے لیے فری لانس اور کل وقتی عملے کی خدمات حاصل کر رہے تھے۔ مجھے ایک پروڈیوسر کے طور پر پہلے سے ہی تجربہ تھا، لہذا قدرتی طور پر، میں نے اپنا پہلا کیمرہ خریدا اور فری لانس ویڈیو جرنلسٹ کے طور پر کام کرنا شروع کیا۔ تب سے، مجھے دونوں کا تجربہ ہوا بڑی ٹیمیوں میں کام کرنے کا— جس میں ایک درجن افراد ایک دستاویزی فلم میں شامل ہیں — اور خود...
GIJN'nin Gizli Habercilik Kılavuzu
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Bu kılavuz, GIJN’nin Kaynak Merkezi müdürü Nikolia Apostolou ve GIJN muhabiri Rowan Philp tarafından yazılmıştır. Düzenleme Reed Richardson ve Laura Dixon tarafından yapıldı. Çizimler Smaranda Tolosano’ya aittir. Dünya çapında gizli araştırmalar olağanüstü etkili gazetecilik üretti. Kamu kayıt şeffaflığı kuralları veya güçlü kaynak koruma yasaları olmayan ülkelerde gizli görev, muhabirlerin kamu yararına hikayeleri ortaya çıkarmak için sahip oldukları birkaç araçtan biri olabilir.
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GIJN's Guide to Undercover Reporting
Resources | العربية | বাংলা | हिंदी | Indonesia | Türkçe This guide was written by GIJN’s Resource Center director Nikolia Apostolou and GIJN reporter Rowan Philp. Editing was by Reed Richardson and Laura Dixon. Illustrations are by Smaranda Tolosano. Across the world undercover investigations have produced extraordinary, impactful journalism.
Comment se lancer dans la production vidéo avec une petite rédaction
Ce guide de GIJN vous montre de A à Z comment les rédactions de taille petite peuvent se lancer dans la production vidéo, avec des moyens limités : de la constitution de l’équipe à la monétisation des vidéos, en passant par l’assemblage de l’équipement. Quand je finissais mes études il y a plus de dix, ans, la vidéo constituait déjà une véritable tendance. Partout dans le monde, les médias embauchaient des pigistes et des employés à temps plein pour produire des reportages vidéo.
Cómo crear una unidad de video: guía de GIJN para redacciones pequeñas
By Nikolia Apostolou | 22 hours ago English | हिंदी| Português Cuando estaba terminando la universidad –hace más de una década–, realizar videos era la gran novedad. Alrededor del mundo, las organizaciones de noticias estaban contratando a personal independiente y de tiempo completo para producir historias audiovisuales. Yo ya tenía experiencia como productora, así que compré mi primera cámara y empecé a trabajar por mi cuenta como periodista audiovisual.
كيف ننشئ وحدة فيديو: دليل للمؤسّسات الصغيرة
حقيبة أدوات فيديو. صورة: نيكوليا أبوستولو عندما كنت أنهي دراستي منذ أكثر من عشر سنوات، كان تصوير الفيديو قادمًا بقوّة، كانت المؤسّسات الإخباريّة في جميع أنحاء العالم توظّف موظّفين مستقلّين وعاملين بدوامٍ كامل لإنتاج قصص الفيديو. كان لدي خبرة حينها بالعمل كمنتجة، فاشتريت بطبيعة الحال أول كاميرا وبدأت أعمل كصحفيّة فيديو مستقلّة. واكتسبت منذ ذلك الحين الخبرة للعمل مع فرقٍ كبيرة – تضمُّ اثني عشر شخصُا يعملون على إنتاج فيلم وثائقي – وخبرة الإنتاج والتّصوير والمونتاج بمفردي.
Enquêter sur les féminicides : le guide de GIJN
Data journalisme By Nikolia Apostolou | January 24, 2022 Les féminicides font des dizaines de milliers de mort tous les ans autour du monde. Comment les journalistes peuvent-ils contribuer à collecter des données sur ce sujet sur lequel très peu de statistiques publiques existent ? Découvrez une liste de ressources, conseils et enquêtes pouvant vous aider à aborder ce sujet crucial.
Top 12 Guides & Tipsheets from GIJN's Resource Center in 2021
Resources | The GIJN Resource Center is a leading source of tipsheets, videos, and guides on investigative and data journalism, fundraising, freelancing, security, and more. It’s used by journalists in 100 countries per day in 14 languages. The Center’s digital library catalogs more than a thousand items, including 40 reporting guides on subjects as diverse as satellite imagery, human trafficking, Indigenous communities, and property records.
Como criar uma unidade de vídeo: um guia para pequenas organizações
Português By Nikolia Apostolou | 1 min ago English Uma bolsa de kit de vídeo. Imagem: Nikolia Apostolou Quando eu estava terminando a faculdade, há mais de uma década, fazer vídeo era o próximo grande passo. Em todo o mundo, as organizações de notícias estavam contratando funcionários autônomos e em tempo integral para produzir histórias em vídeo. Eu já tinha experiência como produtora, então, naturalmente, comprei minha primeira câmera e comecei a trabalhar como videojornalista freelancer.
How to Set Up a Video Unit: A GIJN Guide for Small Organizations
Resources | العربية | বাংলা| Français | हिंदी | Indonesia| Português | Русский | Türkçe When I was finishing grad school more than a decade ago, doing video was the next big thing. Across the world, news organizations were hiring freelance and full-time staff to produce video stories. I already had experience as a producer, so naturally, I bought my first camera and started working as a freelance video journalist.
فیمیسائیڈ کی تفتیش: جی آئی جے این کی گائیڈ
فیمیسائیڈ، عورتوں کا ان کا عورت ہونے کے ناتے خود ساختہ قتل ایک عالمی مسئلہ ہے۔ اقوام متحدہ کے حالیہ کے شمار میں، 50 ہزار کے قریب عورتوں کا قتل ان کے قریبی پارٹنر اور دیگر فیمبلی ممبران کے ہاتھوں ہوتا ہے ۔ یہ روزانہ 137 جانوں کا کھونا ہے۔ یہ نمبر صرف ان عورتون کا شمار کرتا ہے جو قریبی پارٹنر اور فیملی ممبران کے ہاتھوں قتل ہوتی ہیں اور ان کو شمار نہیں کرتا جو کہ مسلح تصادم یا پھر جہیز کی خاتر ماری جاتی ہیں۔ ماہرین کا کہنا ہے کہ کم رپورٹد نمبر ہے کیونکہ دنیا بھر کی حکومتیں فیمیسائیڈ کو ایک مختلف...
En medio de la peor ola de calor en 30 años, miles de personas evacuadas por incendios en Grecia
Miles de personas han sido evacuadas de Varibobi, un suburbio al noreste de Atenas, y más de 100 casas y negocios han sido destruidos mientras helicópteros, aviones y fuerzas terrestres luchan para controlar un incendio que comenzó el martes.
Como investigar feminicídio: um guia da GIJN
Português By Nikolia Apostolou | August 3, 2021 English O feminicídio – o assassinato intencional de mulheres por serem mulheres – é um problema global. De acordo com as últimas estimativas da ONU, 50.000 mulheres e meninas são mortas a cada ano por parceiros ou outros membros da família. São 137 vidas perdidas todos os dias.
Cómo investigar femicidios: una guía de GIJN
Español By Nikolia Apostolou | June 17, 2021 El femicidio –el asesinato intencional de mujeres por ser mujeres– es un problema mundial. Según los cálculos más recientes de la ONU, 50.000 mujeres y niñas son asesinadas cada año por sus parejas u otros familiares. Son 137 vidas que se pierden a diario. Esta cifra solo incluye los casos de mujeres asesinadas por un familiar o pareja, no considera los asesinatos selectivos en el contexto de conflictos armados o asesinatos relacionados con la dote.
Investigating Femicide: A GIJN Guide
Resources By Nikolia Apostolou | June 7, 2021 Português | Español | العربية | Türkçe Femicide — the intentional murder of women because they are women — is a global problem. According to the UN’s latest estimates, 50,000 women and girls are killed each year by intimate partners or other family members. That’s 137 lives lost every day.
Investigating Femicide: A GIJN Guide
Resources | العربية| Français | Deutsch | हिंदी| Português | Русский | Español | Türkçe | اردو Femicide — the intentional murder of women because they are women — is a global problem. According to the UN’s latest estimates, 50,000 women and girls are killed each year by intimate partners or other family members. That’s 137 lives lost every day.
Digging For Our Families
Title: Digging For Our Families Duration: 22'08'' Director: Nikolia Apostolou Original Music: Leda Maniatakou Synopsis: Digging For Our Familiesis a short documentary on the work of a young group of Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot scientists trying to help their country reconcile. The group is searching, exhuming and returning back to their families the remains of the 2.002 people that went missing during the Cyprus Conflict between the 1950s and 1970s.
Sharia law and the Greek legal system
ATHENS, Greece – Hatice Molla Sali will discover on Wednesday, December 19 whether or not she will live in poverty in her twilight years. That’s when the European Court of Human Rights will render judgement on the 68-year-old Muslim’s case against an Islamic court in Greece that deprived her inheritance from her late husband under Sharia law. Sali’s plight stems from a treaty Greece signed with the newly established Turkish republic in 1922.
Thursday's Child
ATHENS – In 2016, 15-year-old Asma from Afghanistan boarded one of the thousands of dinghies leaving the Turkish shores for Greece.She was six months pregnant.Asma’s family fled Afghanistan for Iran out of fear for their lives, and could only afford to send one person even further, to Europe: They sent Asma.“What we did was very difficult,” Asma recalled of the journey from Iran to Greece with Hamid, also 15, the son of another refugee family and the father of her child.
The Russian-Ukraine rift spills over into the orthodox church
ATHENS, Greece – Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, the foremost leader in the Eastern Christian Church, is scheduled to recognize the newly founded Ukrainian Orthodox Church on January 6.
Refugee children in Greece are still out of school
ATHENS, Greece – Sixteen-year-old Abdul Rashid will attend school for the first time in Greece this month, even though the Afghan refugee has been in the country for almost three years. He says he expects it to be tough. “It's very important to learn the language of the country you're living in,” Rashid said in English. “So now I'm learning Greek. But it's very difficult.
Digging For Our Families - trailer
Digging For Our Families is a short documentary on the work of a young group of Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot scientists trying to help their country reconcile. The group is searching, exhuming and returning back to their families the remains of the 2.002 people that went missing during the Cyprus Conflict between the 1950s and 1970s.
Greece: the fishermen of Lesbos saving refugee lives
Lesbos, Greece – Before sunrise, 45-year-old fisherman Kostas Pinteris launches his small boat eastwards with a plan to drop his nets near the Greece-Turkey border in the Mediterranean. As he leaves the port, he looks right and left, worried. Just a few hours ago, the attempted coup had kicked off in Turkey. Talk on the island was that the violence could lead to a new surge in refugees embarking for Lesbos.
The money and career strategies that helped me thrive during the Greek economic crisis
In 2010, after I graduated with a master's degreein journalism in the U.S., I went home to Greece to visit my family and friends. For months, Greece had been making international headlines about its fiscal issues, but experts at the time predicted the country would bounce back in a year or two. It was an unsettling time. There weren't a lot of jobs and many of my friends were heading to Western Europe to find work. Fortunately, my scholarship had covered my educational expenses.
Rough Times for Rough Sleepers — Are We Europe
Street papers step up efforts to help the homeless survive lockdown. Will they be enough? Image by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos A ten-minute walk from Athens’ gleaming nighttime Acropolis, 70-year-old Dimitra Pagkiou is struggling to fall asleep in her windowless basement. It is not financial worries that are keeping her up, but loneliness. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, she spent her days outside, selling the street magazine Shedia and chatting to customers.
I've worked from home for 11 years: These low-cost productivity tips help me focus
As a freelance journalist, I have spent the last 11 years working from home. I'm now in my fourth week of self-quarantine at my home in Greece, and I've had to draw on what I've learned about productivity over the past decade to help focus during an uncertain time for all of us. These strategies have worked for me and could help you adjust to remote work, especially if youhaven't done it much before.
The re-discovery of a long-lost Greek city
By Nikolia Apostolou 6 March 2020 When talking about influential cities, or poleis, in Ancient Greece, the ones that usually come to mind are Athens and Sparta. But the regions controlled by those cities may have been just as relevant, too. An example is ancient Thouria – located on the outskirts of what is now the southern city of Kalamata – often referenced as one of the most significant cities of western Messenia, a region under Spartan rule for roughly 400 years.
Is this the fall of Greece's Golden Dawn?
If the courts in Greece are not suspended over the coronavirus outbreak, one of the most important trials in the country’s modern history is expected to end soon. After four years and more than 430 court sessions and hundreds of witnesses, the 69 defendants, among them the leader, the MPs and many members of Greece’s neo-nazi party, Golden Dawn, will finally hear whether they’re guilty of organising and running a criminal organisation, responsible for numerous attacks and even deaths.
Turkey opens borders, reignites refugee crisis in Europe
PARIS — The Greek military and police are clashing with refugees rushing to cross the border from Turkey as islanders to the south cope with hundreds of new arrivals. Across the continent, German politicians vow to keep borders shut even as thousands of protesters in the capital demand entry for desperate Syrians. In France, some wonder whether refugee tent cities will pop up in front of shops and restaurants again.
Greece riveted as far-right ‘trial of the century’ nears climax
ATHENS — It is being called “the trial of the century.” For four years, hundreds of witnesses, 69 defendants and almost 400 days of testimony and motions have riveted Greeks as no other trial in recent memory. It has become near daily fodder for local news media, social networks and cafe chat. That’s because it’s the far-right Golden Dawn party on trial.
Greek asylum system leaves unaccompanied minors behind
Sixteen-year-old Fahime fled her abusive family in Iran only to fall foul of a Greek asylum system that has allowed hundreds of unaccompanied minors to go missing or end up living in jeopardy on the streets. Eighteen months after Fahime arrived in Greece, her asylum process hasn’t even begun – she doesn’t go to school, she doesn’t live in an official shelter, and she could soon be homeless.
Briefing: How will Greece’s new asylum law affect refugees?
Nearly 44,000 asylum seekers have crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek islands so far this year, compared to fewer than 32,500 in all of 2018 – an annual increase of more than 30 percent, but still far below 2015 and 2016 levels.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
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Turistas desalojan isla griega al avivarse incendio
ATENAS — Un campamento turístico y casas cercanas en la isla de Elafónisos, en el sur de Grecia, han sido desalojados por segundo día consecutivo ya que un incendio en un vertedero cercano se intensificó debido a los fuertes vientos. Las autoridades dijeron que el fuego estaba “bajo control” anoche, pero los vientos lo avivaron. En total, 90 bomberos intentaban hoy contener el fuego, ayudados por seis aeronaves y tres helicópteros.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
Tourists evacuated from Greek island camp as wildfire rages
Firefighters approach a wildfire at Elafonisos island, south of Peloponnese peninsula, on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. A wildfire which broke out on Elafonisos island in southern Greece on Saturday has prompted the evacuation of a hotel and camping as a precautionary measure, with no injuries reported, according to Greek national news agency AMNA.
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