2006 Greek Cultural Fellowship

Staff Writer Vesna Jaksic traveled to Greece in June as part of Internews organization’s 2006 Greek Cultural Fellowship, which allowed 12 U.S. journalists to spend a week in Athens to study post-Olympics Greece.

Here are the two stories from the trip, both published Sept. 3, 2006, in the Stamford Advocate:

Post-Olympics, Greece is poised to make a splash

Calling the Olympic village home

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Interviewing Evripidis Stylianidis, Greek’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, in Athens, June 2006.