Giorgos Christides is a Greek journalist specialising in migration.

His work has been featured in prominent international and Greek media outlets, including The Guardian, BBC, NDR/ARD, Al Jazeera, Hyphen and Solomon. From 2012 to 2023, he was the Greek correspondent for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. In 2024, he was runner-up for the European Press Prize in the Migration category. He won the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) prize for three consecutive years (2022, 2023 and 2024) and was honoured with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism and the SIGMA Award for Data Journalism in 2023. In 2022, he received the De Tegel Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the European Parliament Journalism Prize for Print.

He is a board member of the Greek Foreign Press Association (FPA) and is also a doctoral candidate and lecturer at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, focusing on migration and the media.

Giorgos Christides

Basic information

Name
Giorgos Christides
Title
Journalist
Expertise
Migration
Country
Greece
City
Thessaloniki

Supported projects

Inside Europe’s AI Border Fortress

  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Technology

ATHENS -The European Union is deploying AI-driven technologies along its borders in an to attempt to control migration flows, raising legal and ethical concerns about the impact on migrants' rights. While these systems are promoted as improving efficiency and security, they have raised concerns about privacy violations and restrictions on the right to asylum, concerns that this research confirms.

Camera at refugee camp on Samos