Phoebe Fronistas
Phoebe Fronista (MJ, ’11) is a news producer based in Athens, Greece, currently fighting the good fight for transparent and independent journalism at the journalism non-profit, iMEdD. She’s also the co-host and producer of the English-language news analysis podcast, The Agora by MacroPolis.
Previously, she spent 11 exhilarating years (2011-2022) in breaking news, covering the Greek financial and refugee crises for Reuters TV.
She co-authored the book chapter ‘Down & Out & Wet & Bedraggled: Navigating the Emotional and Ethical Maelstrom of Reporting from the Crisis Flashpoint of Idomeni’ in Giovanna Dell’Orto and Irmgard Wetzstein’s (eds) “Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in Europe” (Routledge, 2018) about her experiences covering Greece’s refugee crisis in 2015-2016; she presented it at two international journalism conferences organized by the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Her Master’s thesis, a documentary short filmed on location in East Jerusalem, won Best Student Film at the 2011 California Film Awards.
A former arts reporter and theater critic, she also holds a BA in Law & History (University of Kent at Canterbury, ’01) and an Acting Diploma (The New Hellenic Theater School, ’06).