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.