Stelios Kouloglou is a Greek

Greece

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and writer. He is the creator of the news web channel "TVXS" and a board member of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He is, also, a columnist for the LIFO

LIFO (magazine)

LiFo is a free magazine published and distributed every Thursday in Athens, Greece. It contains articles with general socio-political content, articles on the matters of the city of Athens, interviews, reportages and information about events in Athens as well as with articles about cinema, theatre...

 magazine.

He was born in Athens

Athens

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. He graduated from the University of Athens

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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 and studied journalism in Paris

Paris

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, Tokyo

Tokyo

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 and India

India

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. He has worked as a political correspondent in Greece and as a foreign correspondent in Paris and Moscow

Moscow

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, from where he covered developments in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and the other ex-communist countries. In the 1992-95 period he covered the war in Yugoslavia

Yugoslav wars

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 as a special war correspondent.

In 1996 Kouloglou created and introduced for the Greek national television Reportage Without Frontiers. Although disputed in terms of originality at home as considerably based on international investigative reportage, his documentaries have won awards in Greece and abroad (2000 and 2001 "Euro-Comenius" historical documentary Award)..

On June 2008 he began writing a column for the Greek free press magazine LIFO

LIFO (magazine)

LiFo is a free magazine published and distributed every Thursday in Athens, Greece. It contains articles with general socio-political content, articles on the matters of the city of Athens, interviews, reportages and information about events in Athens as well as with articles about cinema, theatre...

, called "Spin Doctor".
On November 1, 2008 he began an internet channel named "TV Without Frontiers", a news and political analysis website.

In 2009, his documentary film

Documentary film

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 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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, based on the book of the same name by John Perkins, was shown at film festivals in the U.S.

He has written books on current affairs and politics (Sta ihni tou Tritou Dromou, 1986 (On the footsteps of the "Third Road"), Mia fora ki enan kairo itan mia Sovietiki Enwsi, 1994 (Once upon a time there was a Soviet Union), Oi kokkinoi ksanarhontai, 1994 (The return of the Reds)), historical testimonies (Martyries gia ton Emfylio kai tin Elliniki Aristera, 2005 (Testimonies on the Civil War and the Greek Left)), and the novels Egklima sto proedriko megaro, 1989 (Crime in the Presidential House) - a book exposed as plagiarism from Asesinato en el Comité Central (Murder in the Central Committee), 1981 by Vázquez Montalbán - and
Min pas pote monos sto tahydromeio, 2002 (Never go to the post office alone)).

On January 28, 2010, it was announced that Stelios Kouloglou would be a member of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation's (ERT) board.

External links

• TV Without Frontiers News web channel.
• "SPIN DOCTOR" Stelios Kouloglou's column in LIFO
  LIFO (magazine)
  LiFo is a free magazine published and distributed every Thursday in Athens, Greece. It contains articles with general socio-political content, articles on the matters of the city of Athens, interviews, reportages and information about events in Athens as well as with articles about cinema, theatre...
  
  archive.
• Reportage Without Frontiers
• Thematic Night