Andreas Paraschos

Andreas Paraschos

"Politis" Chief editor" Infobox Musical artist
Name = Andreas Paraschos


Img_capt = Andreas Paraschos at printing house
Origin = Cyprus
Occupation = Journalist, Chief editor, lyricist

Born in Larnaca in April 1958. He spends the first years of childhood in a very turbulent period in the history of Cyprus. He spends his primary school years in the Arrenagogeio of Larnaca and then graduates 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 goes on to study in the field of international journalism in Moscow. There, until he attained the Master of Arts in international journalism in 1987, he witnesses historic changes since the country moves from its long-lived totalitarian governance of Brezhnev to a process of inter-party changes that have see Antropov, Chernenko and in the end the Gorbachev rise to power. Paraschos feels that observing as part of the community the great changes that had taken place was a study in itself.

He returns to Cyprus in 1987 and starts working in the then newly established newspaper “Empros” which was created by journalists that were cut off AKEL and Haravgi (Andreas Kannaouros, Andreas Stylianou and Polydoros Polydoridis). At the same time he works as a reporter in Cyprus for the municipal radio station of Pireas “Radio Five” and the London Greek Radio (LGR). He is hired as a Parliamentary journalist in the first private radio station in Cyprus, Radio Super, in 1989. He considers 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 our island, as well as because it took living and welfare measures resulting in the establishment of “Radiomarathonios for people with special needs.”

In 1990, after the strike at Radio Super, he moves to the Third Programme of RIK where he works as a political editor. There he develops another skill, that of a lyricist, and initiates a parallel, personal path in the field of music. He works with George Dalaras, Antonis Kaloyiannis, Anna Vissi, Alexia, Koulis Theodorou and many others in a series of discs that have as their subject Cyprus. In 1994 he assumes the duties of correspondent of the Greek show of the Australian Radio and Television broadcasting, SBS, a position he retains to this day.

In 1995 he leaves RIK and moves to Phileleftheros where he works in “Selides”. There he initiates an investigation regarding the persons missing from the Cypriot tragedy revealing among other things that over one hundred victims in the invasion are buried in the cemeteries of Lakatameia and "Constantine and Helen" in Nicosia. From that point begins the process of exhumations and identification through the scientific method of DNA.In 1997 he moves to ΑΝΤ1 TV, where he works for five months only. He then assumes the position of chief editor of the News Department in the newly set up cable channel ALPHA. In January 1999 he joins the group that aims to release the newspaper Politis. In 2001, he becomes chief editor, a position which he retains to this day.