Christos Gavalas

Based in Greece but spent a large portion of academic life in 🗽. Obsessed with expressing myself through writing in many forms. Write pieces, write captions, write short summaries (catching essence), write for the picture (documentary) and - lately - even write code! What's more than this? Combine it with new technologies as much as possible. Why? It allows me to learn more and to set new targets all the time, in a much changing profession. And if you're confused, shoot me a message and I'll explain 😎

EDMO • March 19, 2024

European Digital Media Observatory Training Consultant

Training newsrooms on how to properly set up digital, data and fact checking desks, to better streamline their work and protect their credibility. Explain roles and ways to leverage AI in order to speed up news verification and produce engaging explanatory fact checks. Member of EDMO editorial team, tasked to come up with fact checking trends and commonalities around Europe.

Athens Technology Center • May 24, 2023

Develop Technology for Fact Checking

As a Fact Checking Manager at one the main technology suppliers of medium and large sized media companies in Europe, I make sure that journalists are equipped with the right tools to verify news on a daily basis.

Workbench, Columbia University's Data Journalism Platform in Greek!

Worked on the launch of the greek version of Columbia Journalism School’s Workbench platform, the simplest possible way for journalists to work with data without requiring any coding.

Social Media • August 15, 2020

Social Media Strategy

Have been responsible for media and other companies' social media presence. Managed Twitter and Facebook account pages, brought creativity but also sense of right selection and newsworthiness on the table.

Writing Samples

I have created journalistic content to be published through a variety of outlets, mostly online, and newspapers. Acquired especially strong writing skills and written storytelling techniques by attending the relative class at NYU as part of my graduate journalism program.

Columbia University • August 31, 2017

Data Journalism Project Samples

Take a look at some of the data journalism stories that I have worked on. They were put together through exploring raw datasets, manipulation various types of data and using visualization libraries in Python. In my view, this is the type of original storytelling that can increase audience engagement as well as regain the lost journalistic credibility in our times.