{"id":4490,"date":"2026-05-07T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:56:00","slug":"sadness-in-journalism-dimitris-gionis-dies-at-the-age-of-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"Sadness in journalism: Dimitris Gionis dies at the age of 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Died, at the age of 87, <b>journalist<\/b>, for many years <b>editor <\/b>of the cultural section of <b>Eleftherotypia<\/b> and author <strong>Dmitris Gionis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He had been hospitalized in recent days with multiple<b> health problems.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>The <b>journalist and author<\/b>, who for decades ran the cultural pages of <strong>Eleftherotypia<\/strong>, was born in 1939 in Dimitsana, Arcadia.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 12, he moved to <b>Athens<\/b>and from <b>1964<\/b>he became a professional journalist, with a special emphasis on cultural and artistic reporting. From 1964 to 1967 he worked for the newspaper &#8220;Democratic Change&#8221;.<br \/>From 1967 to 1973 he lived abroad, mainly in France and Canada, due to the dictatorship, collaborating with Greek-language publications. After his return to Greece, he was co-editor, together with Fonta Ladis, of the magazine &#8220;Tetradio&#8221; from 1974 to 1976.<\/p>\n<p>He also worked for the newspaper &#8220;<b>Avgii<\/b>&#8221; from 1974 to 1975, while from 1975 and the first day of publication of &#8220;<b>Freytherotypia<\/b>&#8221; he joined its staff, remaining for decades in cultural reporting. At the same time, from 1976 to 1983 he participated in the reporting of the television show &#8220;Paraskinio&#8221;.<br \/><b><\/b><br \/>In his writing career, in 1994 he published the narrative <b>&#8220;Now you will see&#8221;, <\/b>in 1996 his sequel entitled <b>&#8220;The Pavilion&#8221;<\/b>, while the trilogy was completed in 1999 with <b>&#8220;So and so&#8230;&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 1996 he also published the book &#8220;<b>Better to the printer than to the psychiatrist<\/b>&#8220;, which includes 18 <b>interviews<\/b> with <b>Vassilis Vasilikos<\/b> over a period of 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>His contribution to the <b>EESIEA Cultural Foundation<\/b>, of which he was a longtime vice-president, was also significant<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Died, at the age of 87, the journalist, for many years editor-in-chief of the cultural section of Eleftherotypia and writer Dimitris &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}