Lydia Emmanouilidou is a freelance journalist and audio producer who splits her time between Greece and the US.
Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Guardian, Monocle Radio, The New Humanitarian and Al Jazeera.
Lydia’s work has won some of the most prestigious journalism awards in the US and Europe. She is a recipient of the 2024 IJ4EU Impact Award and the 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize, which is awarded by the European Parliament. She was also a runner-up for the 2024 European Press Prize in the Migration Category. Migration Category. She also received the 2021 Edward R. Murrow National Award for her reporting on refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos. Her other honours and awards include the 2016 NIHCM 9th Annual Television and Radio Journalism Award and the 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
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