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.