Stayros Tzimas

Stavros Tzimas was born in Avlotopos, Souli, Thesprotia, and studied economics at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He entered the field of journalism through the newspaper Rizospastis in 1980 and subsequently worked for the newspapers "Ta Nea" and "To Pontiki," the Athens News Agency, and collaborated with Swedish Radio. Since 1996, he has been managing the Thessaloniki office of "Kathimerini," and since 2008, he has served as the deputy president and director of the Macedonia Directorate of the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. Since the early 1990s, he has been covering Balkan reports, with assignments in the wars of Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. He has been honored with the Botsis Foundation Journalism Promotion Award for his investigations into women's trafficking networks, as well as by the Albanian National Reconciliation Foundation for his reports on the bloody vendettas in northern Albania. He is married and has two daughters.