Nikolia Apostolou, from Greece, is a multimedia journalist who is currently working as the Resource Centre Director at GIJN.
Over the past decade, she has been writing, making videos and producing documentaries in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey for media outlets including: The Associated Press, AJ+, The New York Times, PBS, USA Today, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, The Economist, Newsweek, Hakai Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the Berlin Policy Journal and Global Post, among others.
Nikolia also researched 'The Criminal Migrant Shipping Network', examining how cargo ships are used to transport large numbers of refugees from Turkey to Greece and Italy, alongside a group of eight journalists from Europe, North Africa and Turkey.
In May 2012, she co-directed a documentary about the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn. In the summer of 2017, she won a scholarship to attend the Summer Investigative Course at Columbia University.
Nikolia earned her Master's degree in digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, having previously earned her Bachelor's degree in journalism at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. Having lived in Lesbos, Istanbul, Riyadh and New York, she continues to travel the globe.
