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Goodmorning

Thank you for the invitation

First I would like to show you a 3 minute video of a documentary i made three years ago.

I was invited to this forum in order to talk to you about the way someone should approach a journalist and explain a problem to him. That is, how to approach me!

In general, it’s not difficult at all to approach a journalist. Journalists are very approachable. The problem is that they have loads of things in their minds, and also the fact that they have editors and chiefs, who filter continuously, for many reasons, the information coming to them.

So, although it is very easy to talk to journalists, at the same time it is very difficult το grab their attention.

I remember, some months ago, in Washington, at the NGO’s Conference for The Decade of Action, press coverage was practically absent. The only journalist there was… me and my camera. A CNN’ journalist had promised that she would be there but she wasn’t because of the earthquake in Japan.

So, I will begin by telling you a story. (περισσότερα…)