Greek Reporter

 Anastasios

Papapostolou

I spend most of my time in Los Angeles, and... I am not an actor. I believe that I was born with media as part of my karma. I grew up, literally in a newspaper room. My father was a journalist. I would visit his office everyday until I turned twelve years old. I have an A.A. degree in Cinema, and have always had a strong interest in movies. In 2009, I graduated with a B.A. degree in Communications from California State University at Northridge. I like exploring communications and its overall potential; without focusing on one single form of media. While still attending high school; I began and directed the first national newspaper for Greek youth. The newspaper's circulation reached 125, 000 copies per month in high schools all over Greece. Due to this success, I was invited to the European parliament to interview the president of the European Union, at that time, Pat Cox. In addition, I interviewed the president of the European Commission and Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi. I was accepted by a Greek University after high school, but took a different route. I took a job offer with a good salary as a full-time reporter for one of the most popular Greek investigative TV shows, "Hidden World". People thought I was lucky to work on this show, but I wanted to travel. I resigned after eight months, took a plane, and landed at JFK, to study and discover America. While in NY, I worked for the New York City public radio (WNYE 91.5 FM) co-hosting the Greek-American Show Aktina. Then, I traveled to Los Angeles to cover the Golden Globe Awards and ... I fell in love with the city. In my life of 23 years, I have interviewed countless politicians, actors, musicians-both very boring and very interesting people. Up until 2008, I was a contributing writer for the largest circulating Greek newspaper, Proto Thema. My most recent exclusive interviews have been with public personalities like: Michael Bloomberg (NYC Mayor), Phil Angelides (democratic candidate for California), Jim Gianopulos (CEO 20th century Fox), John Stamos. I also covered the 2008 US election. You can read some of the interviews here . The last two years I have built and operated several online projects. The most popular is GreekReporter.com is the first Global news portal and agency for Greeks abroad. In the summers - which I usually spend in Greece - I work for Agiocampos Bay. While not in Greece, I am probably in the US doing "everything" for Greek Reporter.