Stavros Psycharis has passed away

Publisher Stavros Psycharis died at the age of 77.

Stavros Psycharis was a Greek publisher, journalist and businessman. He was President of the Lambrakis Journalistic Organization (DOL) from 2009 to 2017.

Who was Stavros Psycharis

Stavros Psycharis was born in Athens in 1945. His uncle was Kostas Loules, a leader and MP of communist party KKE. He began his journalistic career in 1964 in the left-wing newspaper “Democratic Change” (while also being a member of Hellenic-Soviet Association). During the dictatorship he was hired as parliamentary editor for the newspaper Ethnos.

In 1972, he started working at the Lambrakis Journalism Organization (DOL), initially as a journalist and then as political editor of the newspaper “Ta Nea”.

From the autumn of 1983 he was the director of the newspaper “To Vima”. In 1996 he was appointed Governor of Mount Athos by the Simitis government, a position he held until 2001.

In September of the same year he assumed the duties of general manager and from September 2003 of the managing director and vice president of the Group, participating in the board of directors of the publishing companies of the DOL group.