Stelios Kouloglou

Stelios Kouloglou (Greek: Στέλιος Κούλογλου; born 1953, Athens) is a Greek journalist writer and documentaries director. He is the creator of the news web channel "TVXS". Political analyst and major Greek publications columnist in international press including Le Monde Diplomatique.

Early 2015, Stelios Koulogou was designated member of the European Parliament on behalf of Syriza, after Georgios Katrougalos joined the Greek government as Minister for Administrative Reforms.

He was born in Athens. He graduated from the University of Athens and studied journalism in Paris, Tokyo and India. He has worked as a political correspondent in Greece and as a foreign correspondent in Paris and Moscow, from where he covered developments in the Soviet Union and the other ex-communist countries. In the 1992-95 period he covered the war in Yugoslavia as a special war correspondent.

In 1996 Kouloglou created and introduced for the Greek national television Reportage Without Frontiers a weekly current affairs and documentaries program awarded 4 times as the best informative program of the Greek television. His documentaries have won awards in Greece and abroad. Best Greek documentary award for his series of programs on the Greek civil war(2000), Eurocomenius award for the film “The Death Match”(2002).

On May 12, 2008 the administration of ERT decided not to renew the cooperation with the journalist. As justification, they said that the broadcast had run its course and that its cost was disproportionally high. According to Kouloglou, the ERT administration had requested the cancellation of the broadcasting of his documentary show titled "Generation of 700 €", while they also refused to cooperate in the organization of a documentary on human rights in China from Mao to the Olympic Games. The termination of his cooperation with ERT was portrayed as "censorship" by politically friendly to the journalist media and a few like-minded deputies in the parliament.

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