Yiannis Antoniou appointed new Deputy Government Spokesperson

12:13 - 28 September 2023

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President Nikos Christodoulides has appointed Yiannis Antoniou as the new Deputy Government Spokesperson.

A Presidency press release announcing the appointment includes a brief CV according to which Yiannis Antoniou was born on 11 July 1969 and is a graduate of Limassol's Second Lyceum.

After his military service, he studied at the Academy of Political Sciences in Sofia and continued his studies at a journalism school in Nicosia, while working as a trainee journalist at Haravgi newspaper.

It is added that Antoniou worked for many years as a reporter and editor of Phileleftheros newspaper, until 2008 when he became editor-in-chief of Kathimerini newspaper in Cyprus.

It is also noted that for a short time, he was one of the editors-in-chief of Mega TV station and head of the IMH journalistic team that created the Reporter news portal.

It is reported that since 2016 he has been running Alpha Creative, a company active in the field of communication and publishing, and in recent years he has been a permanent partner and columnist at Phileleftheros, while he has also worked with MC Digital Media.

It is noted that from September 2018 to 28 September 2023, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus News Agency, while he was a member of the Cyprus Committee of Media Ethics and the Board of Directors of the Cypriot Journalists Union.

Antoniou is married and has one child.

Yiannis Antoniou appointed new Deputy Government Spokesperson

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