Efthimios "Makis" Triantafillopoulos ( el, Μάκης Τριανταφυλλόπουλος; born 14 August 1954) is a

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and publisher. He was, along with

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, the publisher of Proto Thema newspaper and host of two

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programmes,

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and Kitrinos Typos on

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. He uses his TV programmes to expose

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on television, usually using techniques like

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s. He founded his own Sunday-newspaper "VETO" and is the owner of "zougla.gr" (jungle.gr), an internet-newspaper in Greece. Some of his exposures include the football scandal of the so-called '' Paranga'', the judicial scandal in 2005 (the so-called '' Paradikastiko'') and the '' Fakelaki'' amongst the medicines of the National Healthcare Service (ESY) in Greece.

Biography

Triantafillopoulos was born in

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in 1954 and is the son of Konstantinos Triantafyllopoulos, a major general in the

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, who hailed from Leontio in

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, and Eugenia. His father, who died in January 2012, was an officer and had served for many years in the personal security detail of the late prime minister

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, at one point as head of the detail. During the period of the junta, he was court martialed and exiled. His first cousin was Dimitris Trantafyllopoulos, a journalist who had run for political office with

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. He studied at the

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, Italy, before transferring to the law school of the

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. He worked as a journalist and became known through his television show ''Zougla'' (jungle) and “Kitrinos Typos” (yellow journalism) and collaborated with several television stations: New Channel,

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, Alpha,

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and Epsilon. Along with his broadcast television and publishing activity, he had radio shows and maintains a news website, Zougla.gr. In August 2008, he became vice-president of Iraklis FC.

Career

In 2005, along with Tasos Karamitsos and Themos Anastasiadis, he co-founded the newspaper ''Proto Thema'', the first issue of which was published on 27 February 2015. In March 2008, it was announced that Triantafyllopoulos had sold his share of the newspaper to the Pegasus publishing company of the Bobolas family. In November 2009, along with Thanasis Lalas, he issued the weekly newspaper ''Veto'', which shut down in December 2010, due to financial problems. Thanasis Lalas had earlier left the newspaper.

References

Greek television presenters Greek television journalists Greek investigative journalists Living people Mass media people from Thessaloniki 1954 births Greek newspaper publishers (people) {{Greece-journalist-stub