Subject: Journalism and News Production
Dr. Achilleas Karadimitriou is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and News Production at the Department of Communication, Media Studies and Culture of Panteion University in Athens, Greece. He is also working as a journalist/fact-checker on the platform check4facts.gr, headed by the National Centre for Social Research. Based on grants from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY), he has completed in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens post-doctoral research on Public Service Media in the UK, Denmark, and Greece in the platformised era and holds a Ph.D. Degree in the Policy of the European Broadcasting Programming, awarded by the same University. His undergraduate studies are related to Communication and Media (Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and his postgraduate studies focus on Television News and Production (University of Wales, Aberystwyth with a Scholarship from the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation).
He has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the BA Course Communication and Media Studies and the MA Course Communication and New Media, running at the Department of Communication and Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has participated as a research associate in various European research programmes concerning cutting-edge issues related to the evolution of media and the communication field (European Media Platforms: Assessing Positive & Negatives Externalities for European Culture/Eumeplat, Euromedia Ownership Monitor/Euromo, The Media for Democracy Monitor 2020, ISCH COST Action - Populist Political Communication in Europe, YouthActiv - Jean Monnet - Information and Research Activities, 11 Nations Study of Comparative Political Knowledge and Media Consumption). He has worked as a journalist in the digital sector and as a communications specialist in non-profit institutions. His research interests and academic publications focus on broadcasting policy, news media/ social media framing, and journalism professionalism/journalism practices in the context of the platformised era.
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3670-968X
Participation in Research Programs
- October 2021 – May 2024:
"European Media Platforms: Assessing Positive & Negative Externalities for European Culture" (Eumeplat), investigating the effects of the rise of digital platforms on the European communication field. - November 2021 – September 2022:
"Euromedia Ownership Monitor (Euromo)" investigating the transparency of media ownership regimes in European countries. - February 2021 to date:
"Public Discourse Observatory - Check4facts Science" (EKKE) aimed at evaluating the credibility of public discourse in Greece. - September 2019 - December 2021:
"The Media for Democracy Monitor" (of the Euromedia Research Group) aimed at evaluating from a comparative perspective the functioning of the Media and their contribution to democracy. - March - December 2017:
"ISCH COST Action IS1308, Populist Political Communication in Europe", aimed at the comparative study of the Media and the rise of populism in Europe. - September 2013 - June 2014:
YouthActiv in the context of Action KA1 of the Jean Monnet European Program "Information and Research Activities”, framed by the task of preparing research regarding "Europe and Media: The Image of Greece in the Foreign Press". - September 2009 - October 2010:
"11 Nations Study of Comparative Political Knowledge and Media Consumption", with the aim of investigating the relationship between information provided to the electorate and the knowledge citizens gain from it (emphasis on the comparison of the Greek case with other countries).
Indicative Publications
- Karadimitriou, A. (2024, in press). Persistent Challenges for Public Service Journalism in Greece in the Platformised Era. In D’Arma, A., Michalis, M., Lowe, G. F., and Zita, M. B. (Eds.), Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism (11th RIPE Reader). London: Westminster University.
- Karadimitriou, A., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). Public Service Media in the Platform Era: The Cases of Britain, Denmark, and Greece. Journalism and Media, 5 (2): 646-670. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5020043
- Giannouli, I., Karadimitriou, A., Archontaki, I., & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2024). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: analyzing anti-vaccine rhetoric on Greek Facebook. Online Media and Global Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2024-0008
- Archontaki, I., Karadimitriou, A., Giannouli, I. & Papathanassopoulos, S. (2023). Mapping Europeanization in the Greek online public sphere: Assessing the Europeanizing dynamics of social media. Observatorio (OBS) Journal: Special Issue (2023) Platformisation of News and Interactions: Regional Contexts of Crisis in Trust, 27-47. http://obs.obercom.pt
- Karadimitriou, A., von Krogh, T., Ruggiero, C., Biancalana, C., Bomba, M., & Lo, W. H. (2022). “Investigative journalism and the watchdog role of news media: Between acute challenges and exceptional counterbalances”. In J. Trappel, & T. Tomaz (Eds.), Success and failure in news media performance: Comparative analysis in the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 (pp. 101–125). Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855589-5
- Ruggiero, C., Karadimitriou, A., Lo, W. H., Núñez-Mussa, E., Bomba, M., & Sallusti, S. (2022). “The professionalisation of journalism: Global trends and the challenges of training and job insecurity”. In J. Trappel, & T. Tomaz (Eds.), Success and failure in news media performance: Comparative analysis in the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 (pp. 309–335). Nordicom: University of Gothenburg. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855589-15
- Karadimitriou, Α. (2022). "Reality television and its timeless appeal in the context of the deregulated television field". In Sidiropoulou, A. (Ed.), Cross-Touch: Companionship and Intimacy in the Digital Age. Athens: Papazisi Publications.
- Karadimitriou, A. (2022). “Public Service Media in Denmark, UK, and Greece: Comparing media policy practices in the digital platformised era”. Στο Public Value Texte: Public Service Media in Europe (Special Issue of Publications), Wien: ORF.
- Papathanassopoulos, S., Karadimitriou, A., Kostopoulos, C., & Archontaki, I. (2021). “Greece: Media concentration and independent journalism between austerity and digital disruption”. In J. Trappel, & T. Tomaz (Eds.), The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021: How leading news media survive digital transformation (Vol. 2) (pp. 177-230). Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855428-5
- Karadimitriou, A. (2020): "Journalistic Professionalism in Greece: Between Chronic and Acute Crises". In A. Karatzogianni, & A. Veneti (ed.): The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece: Journalism and Political Communication in Times of Crisis. London: Emerald Publishing.
- Giannouli, I., Karadimitriou, Α. (2015): Television coverage and the 2015 election contests, Communication Issues, 20-21: 34-56 (in Greek).
