Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international anchor and one of the most decorated broadcast journalists alive, will headline a summit in Athens on June 9 to mark the 15th anniversary of iefimerida.gr — Greece's most widely read digital news outlet — in an event co-hosted with The Economist.
The summit, titled "Mapping the Future," begins at 8 p.m. at the InterContinental Athenaeum.
It is expected to draw senior politicians, diplomats and industry leaders for a discussion on independent media, democracy and the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence on journalism.
Mrs. Amanpour's four-decade CNN career has earned her 16 Emmy Awards and four Peabody Awards, making her appearance a marquee draw for a Greek media landscape navigating its own digital reckoning.
Her visit comes as Greece faces shifting regional geopolitics and a news industry under mounting pressure from AI-driven disruption.
Iefimerida.gr was founded by Christos Raptis and launched on March 27, 2011 — at the height of Greece's sovereign debt crisis — and built its reputation covering capital controls, austerity and the COVID-19 pandemic with digital-native speed. Under Publisher and CEO Yiannis Kourtakis and Editor-in-Chief Sofia Giannaka, it has become the country's dominant online news brand.