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Veteran journalist and Times of Malta assistant editor Matthew Xuereb has been appointed president of the Institute of Maltese Journalists.
Xuereb replaces former president Sylvana Debono, who is moving on from journalism.
He is one of two new faces on the institute’s council.
MaltaToday online editor and fellow journalism veteran Kurt Sansone has also been co-opted onto the IĠM council as its new general secretary, replacing former TVM journalist Nigel Mifsud who will also be leaving the profession.
In a brief statement, IĠM thanked Debono and Mifsud for their contributions to the field.
Xuereb’s career, spanning two decades and two newsrooms, began at the
Journalists representative body gets new faces
Matthew Xuereb has been appointed president of the Institute of Maltese Journalists
10 April 2021, 9:51am
by MaltaToday Staff
Kurt Sansone (left) and Matthew Xuereb have been co-opted to the IĠM council after the departure of Nigel Mifsud and Sylvana Debono
He succeeds Sylvana Debono who has stepped down after moving on from journalism to another profession.
Also new to the council is MaltaToday news portal editor Kurt Sansone, who will be replacing IĠM General Secretary, former Television Malta journalist Nigel Mifsud, who also moved on to pastures new.
Xuereb, 42, has been a journalist for more than two decades. He started off his career at The Malta Independent and then moved to Times of Malta where he served as a journalist and eventually Head of News before becoming the organisation’s assistant editor.