Tassos Morfis is a journalist and producer based in Athens, Greece. Tassos is the editor and co-founder of AthensLive, a non-profit, independent and on-the-ground source of English-language news, stories and images from Greece geared towards an international audience. For 2016-2017 he was a mentor for the Council of Europe’s Div-A Diversity Accelerator programme, which promotes media inclusion and diversity while targeting original media start-up ideas and helps them to become sustainable.
He has worked as a news producer for the Athens-based production company FOS PHOTOS, and collaborated with foreign media including Channel 4, CNN International and Swiss Television among others. He was an assistant producer on the documentary “#ThisIsACoup” (2016), which premiered on the innovative visual journalism and documentary platform Field of Vision. He is a 2018 Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow at the Tow-Knight Center in NYC and an Onassis Scholar.