Biography
Initiative, curious and persistent Vasiliki Dermitzi does not consider journalism as a conventional profession, but mainly as a path to investigate, reveal and restore the truth.
Vasiliki lives in London and is currently a postgraduate student in Journalism, Media and Arts Department, Westminster University.
She has followed the print strand and focused on writing news stories, interviews, features, profiles and reviews for newspapers and magazines.
Along with traditional journalism, Vasiliki is passionate with online journalism. She prefers to think that new media assists journalism to enter the new communication era.
As an MA student, she was the Feature Editor for the “Nurture” magazine and the sub-editor for The Impressionist website, where she also published her articles.
She has experience in radio broadcasting. Vasiliki is intrigued with the process of reporting for the radio and is fascinated with the direct contact with the listeners.
In 2009 her photos from the G20 protests in London inspired the visual artist Christofer Fraser and were exhibited in Shunt Gallery, London Bridge. Also, the web map SCHMAP chose the image for the Trafalgar square from her selection of images.
Consistently active, she is working to keep up to date her skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio, Project), Adobe (In Design, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash), SEO/Marketing and Typography.
Curriculum Vitae
VASILIKI DERMITZI
E-mail: v.dermitzi@gmail.com
Nationality: Greek
Education
Sep 2008 – Sep 2009 MA International Journalism University of Westminster, London
- Online final project: Create a personal media website to a professional standard. Independently design, produce and provide content, images, digital photography. This site was particularly designed to be accessible by dyslexics. URL: www.dyslexiaonweb.co.uk
- Magazine journalism: Produce a magazine. Originate a number of articles and design periodicals layout. Develop skills in teamwork and work in deadlines.
- Online journalism: Website design and building on the skills of online writing. Group project: www.theimpressionist.co.uk My personal profile page: www.dyslexiaonweb.co.uk/vdermitzi.html
- Investigative journalism: Theory and practice of investigative journalism. Techniques and methods used by investigative journalists. Investigation project.
- Freedom of speech, ethics and democracy: Focus on British and European legislation. Assignments on defamation and hate speech.
- Newspaper journalism: Research and originate a range of news and feature stories in short deadlines. Design a newspaper front page and a newsletter.
Sep 2001 – Sep 2005 BA (Hons) Greek Philology Aristotle University, Greece
- Ancient Greek and Latin poetry and prose: Aeschylus, Aristotle, Thucydides, Homer, Herodotus, Lysias, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Vergil, Cicero, Sallust.
- Modern Greek poetry and prose: Beginning until contemporary literature.
- Linguistics: The history of language. The Indo-European theory.
- Critical Literature – Literature theory: Critical analysis, European suicidal literature. Analysis of the literature movements.
- History of Art – History: European art, 18th – 20th century. Byzantine Empire.
- Theatrology: Ancient theatre in modern versions.
Languages
- Greek: Fluent, native speaker.
- English: Excellent, Certificate of Proficiency in English, Teaching licence, IELTS (grade: 7, 5).
- French: Very Good, DELF B2.
IT skills
Mac and PC skills, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Project), Adobe (Audition, InDesign, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro), Typography, SEO/Marketing, Photography: www.flickr.com/photos/vasilikidermitzi/
Working Experience
Oct 2009: Sub-editor for the English edition of the London’s Greek newspaper ‘Eleftheria’.
- Responsible for the copy taste, the writing, the design and the final design of the English edition.
- Communicational skills, contact the subscribers and the advertisers. Responsible for the mail of the issue on time.
Sept 2009: Teacher of Greek, Independent Greek School of Manor Hill, London.
- Teaching strictly in Greek with the main target to strengthen the Greek education in the London’s Greek community. Adapt to a different educational system and be very careful with the special situation of teaching bilingual students.
April 2009: Internship in London Greek Radio.
- Research, write and upload online articles. Be self-motivated and pitch ideas for web site improvement according to web 2.0 rules.
- I had the opportunity to be initiative, produce and present genuine, local news stories for the radio.
- Interacting with different people who come from different backgrounds helped me to establish good communication skills and built trustful relationships.
Sep 2006 – June 2008: Full-Time Teacher of English, Eurognosi Private School, Greece.
- I had to draw guidelines, prioritise and organise the material needed to be taught day-after-day and instantly change my plans when conditions required a different approach. This significantly helped me to enhance my organisation skills.
- I had to be very careful and responsible when providing new information and giving feedback. The job had to be carried out by giving attention to details.
Sep 2006 – June 2008: Private lessons in Greek, English, French and Latin.
Working one-on-one with students with learning disabilities was a chance to be initiative and always remain self-motivated despite the difficulties.
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