President Nikos Christodoulides, has appointed Yiannis Antoniou as the new Deputy Government Spokesperson, a presidency press release says.

The press release includes a brief CV according to which Yiannis Antoniou was born on 11 July 1969 and is a graduate of the Lyceum B of Limassol.

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 September 28, 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.