Aris Portosalte

Aris Portosalte is a journalist and CEO of the Greek radio station Skai 100.3 and the TV channel Skai TV. He has been a journalist since 1984. In 1989, he started as a newspaper reporter. Then he continued as a radio producer for Skai 100.3. Since 1991, he presents news broadcasts on the radio where he has his own radio show. He also writes articles at the newspaper Kathimerini and he participates as a guest commenter at the news of Skai TV. Recently he became famous for his commentary on the Greek government-debt crisis. He was also journalist and coordinator of the famous TV show series of Skai TV 1821; the birth of a nation (2011).^[1][2][3]

On December 17, 2014 Portosalte started the presentation of the new radio series Knowing our history - The Birth of an archipelagos in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest and the Universities of Aegean, Crete & Thessaloniki.^[4] In an interview it was reported that Portosalte, because of the workload and the time of his show (at 7 am), was forced often to stay overnight at the offices of the radio station Skai 100.3.^[5]

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