Styli Charalambous

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Daily Maverick

Styli Charalambous is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Daily Maverick, in the role since 2009.

Daily Maverick is a Cape Town-based independent news publisher funded partly by a voluntary membership programme. Charalambous co-founded it with Branko Brkic in 2009 and won the Nat Nakasa Award in 2021, the first time it went to a CEO-publisher.

In the job

  1. Daily Maverick suspended operations for 24 hours to highlight the crisis facing journalism, with Charalambous saying the newsroom was in crisis mode. Source

  2. Charalambous received the Sanef Nat Nakasa Award, the first time it was given to a CEO-publisher. Source

Career before

  1. -2002Articles, Deloitte
  2. 2009-presentCo-founder and CEO, Daily Maverick

Education

Degree in finance and accounting, Nelson Mandela University; qualified chartered accountant

Sources

  1. dailymaverick.co.za
  2. speakers.dailymaverick.co.za
  3. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
  4. en.wikipedia.org
  5. ewn.co.za

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