> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 23rd
> CONTACT: Marina Kotzamani, tel. 854-2189, 864-2464
> mak88@columbia.edu
>
> PANEL ON DISSENTING JOURNALISM AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
> George Stephanopoulos to moderate panel discussion on dissenting journalism
> and the interventionist role of the CIA in Greek politics at Columbia
> University. Panelists include Christos Papoutsakis, founder and editor of
> Anti, Greece's foremost alternative journal, Warren Hinckle and Christopher
> Hitchens.
>
> Dissenting Journalism: Greece, the CIA and the USA
>
> On Thursday, February 1st, from 5:30-7:30, The Program in Hellenic Studies
> and the Delacorte Center of The Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia
> University will be jointly sponsoring a forum on "Dissenting Journalism:
> Greece, the CIA and the USA." The event, which is free of charge and open
> to the public will be held at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia
> University, 116th St. and Broadway, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor.
>
> The panel will feature Christos Papoutsakis, the publisher and editorial
> director of the Greek alternative magazine Anti , legendary for its
> dissenting political and cultural critiques. Celebrating three decades in
> journalism, Anti, in addition to a rich editorial history, has taken
> groundbreaking initiatives in its sponsorship of public festivals,
> conferences and cultural events. The magazine was consciously modeled on
> the celebrated American publication Ramparts, which consistently made
> headlines with its explosive exposes of the role of CIA covert operations
> and was considered the definitive voice of the US left during the
> tumultuous period of the late 1960s.
>
> Also present at the panel will be Warren Hinckle, one of the original
> editors of Ramparts, currently managing editor of the San Francisco
> Examiner. For the first time ever, as part of the Delacorte Lecture series
> at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the founder of
> Anti, Christos Papoutsakis, will meet the man responsible for Ramparts, the
> fabled American muckraker Warren Hinckle.
>
> The forum features a prestigious group of newsmaking participants who will
> draw from their own vast experiences in joining Hinckle and Papoutsakis in
> examining the role of dissenting journalism in a democratic society: Victor
> Navasky, publisher and editorial director of The Nation magazine and
> Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia; Christopher
> Hitchens, columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair and expert on Greek
> politics; and Frances Stonor Saunders, arts editor of the New Statesman in
> London and author of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts
> and Letters, the first detailed examination of the CIA's role in cultural
> intervention. The panel will be moderated by former senior White House
> aide and ABC political analyst George Stephanopoulos
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