On Thurs., Feb. 1st, from 5:30 to7:30, the Program in Hellenic Studies and the Delacorte Center of the Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia University will jointly sponsor a forum on "Dissenting Journalism: Greece, the CIA and the USA." The event, which is free of charge and open to the public, will be held at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 116th St. and Broadway, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor.

The panel will feature Christos Papoutsakis, the publisher and editorial director of the Greek alternative magazine Anti , legendary for its dissenting political and cultural critiques. Celebrating three decades in journalism, Anti, in addition to a rich editorial history, has taken groundbreaking initiatives in its sponsorship of public festivals, conferences and cultural events. The magazine was consciously modeled on the celebrated American publication Ramparts, which consistently made headlines with its explosive exposes of the role of CIA covert operations and was considered the definitive voice of the US left during the tumultuous period of the late 1960s.

Also present at the panel will be Warren Hinckle, one of the original editors of Ramparts and currently managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner. For the first time ever, as part of the Delacorte Lecture series at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the founder of Anti, Christos Papoutsakis, will meet the man responsible for Ramparts, the fabled American muckraker, Warren Hinckle.

The forum features a prestigious group of newsmaking participants who will draw from their own vast experiences in joining Hinckle and Papoutsakis in examining the role of dissenting journalism in a democratic society: Victor Navasky, publisher and editorial director of The Nation magazine and Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia; Christopher Hitchens, columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair and expert on Greek politics, and Frances Stonor Saunders, arts editor of the New Statesman in London and author of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, the first detailed examination of the CIA's role in cultural intervention. The panel will be moderated by former senior White House aide and ABC political analyst George Stephanopoulos.