Andreas Paraschos

Who is Andreas Paraschos?

Andreas Paraschos is the editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, a daily morning newspaper published in Athens.

Born in Larnaca, Paraschos spent the first years of childhood in a very turbulent period in the history of Cyprus. He spent his primary school years in the Arrenagogeio of Larnaca and then graduated from the American Academy of Larnaca. He believes that the coexistence with Turkish Cypriot students in school for four years was a significant and useful experience in his career as a journalist.

After the Academy, from which he graduated in 1978, and two years of military service, he studied international journalism in Moscow. There, until he attained the Master of Arts in international journalism in 1987, he witnessed historic changes since the country moved from its long-lived totalitarian governance of Leonid Brezhnev to a process of inter-party changes in which Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and in the end the Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power. Paraschos feels that observing as part of the community the great changes that had taken place was a study in itself.

He returned to Cyprus in 1987 and started working in the then newly established newspaper “Empros” which was created by journalists that were cut off AKEL and Haravgi. At the same time he worked as a reporter in Cyprus for the municipal radio station of Piraeus “Radio Five” and the London Greek Radio. He was hired as a Parliamentary journalist in the first private radio station in Cyprus, Radio Super, in 1989. He considered Radio Super to be a major milestone in the journalistic history of Cyprus since it brought new spirit in the exploratory journalism but also to the radio in the island, as well as because it took living and welfare measures resulting in the establishment of “Radiomarathonios for people with special needs.”