Veteran journalist and media publisher Christos Lambrakis, owner of the Athens-listed Lambrakis Press Group (DOL) and president of private MEGA television station, died on Monday morning at the age of 75 at the Onassis Cardiosurgery Center in Athens.
Born in 1934 in Athens, Lambrakis studied in England and Switzerland, served in the Greek Navy, and worked as a journalist at the To Vima newspaper and editor of the weekly magazine Tachydromos, taking over the management of the Lambrakis Press organisation’s newspapers and magazines in 1957 after the sudden death of his father.
In 1970, when the Lambrakis Press Group became a limited company, he became chairman of the board of DOL S.A.
(source: ana-mpa)
Lambrakis founded Greece’s first music center of international specifications in Athens, the Megaron-Athens Concert Hall, an ambitious project of the Friends of Music society he also founded.
In 1989, DOL, in collaboration with Pegasus S.A., the General Publishing-Messimvrini S.A., Tegopoulos S.A. and Kathimerini S.A., founded the Tiletypos S.A., owner of private MEGA television channel.
In 1997, Lambrakis was the first publisher in Greece to put his publications in electronic format, and two years later created the country’s biggest news and information portal (in.gr).
He was also president of the Lambrakis Research Foundation.
Lambrakis had been suffering from a heart ailment, and died of complications at the Onassis Center, where he was hospitalised.
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