Spyridoula Spanea has been working as a journalist for the newspaper “Kathimerini” since 1999. She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Sports Communication, Journalism and Photojournalism from the University of Peloponnese. In 2020 she was awarded the highest prize of the Botsi Foundation for her research on doping and for her interviews with world sports figures. She became the first, in the history of Greek sports reporting, editor to be awarded the country’s top journalism prize. She has also been awarded by the World Movement of Greek-speaking Women for her contribution to the Greek language through sports reporting, and by the World Wrestling Federation as head of the Press Office for the 2015 World Championships held in Greece. She has also been honored for her work in sports reporting by federations such as Gymnastics, Rowing, Judo, Wrestling, Kanoe Kayak, Badminton, etc. as well as by dozens of institutions and clubs from all over Greece. In 2005, she became the first woman to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Panhellenic Sports Press Association (PSAT) and, in fact, she received the most votes of all those who participated in the elections, which was repeated in the next elections of the Association.

In the professional field, she began her career in journalism with the Piraeus-Nautilus report (Evening-Acropolis), but the hosting of the 2004 Olympic Games and the proposal for cooperation from the leading political and economic newspaper “Kathimerini” were the main reasons for her to start working with sports reportage in June 1999. At the same time, she also presented the television show “Aroma Ellados”, through which she highlighted Greek culture, tradition, as well as current affairs, etc. on 36 provincial stations. In parallel with “Kathimerini”, she worked at “Eurosport” and, subsequently, at “ALPHA Digital”. A few months later, he accepted the proposal of the “Athens 2004” Organizing Committee to take over as head of the Weightlifting Press Center for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2005, he began teaching General Journalism and Greek Language at IEK AKMI, where he remained until 2017. From 1999 until today, he has worked at most of the major international sports events held in our country in the field of Press and Promotion (world and European championships in weightlifting, wrestling, judo, gymnastics, canoeing, sailing, boxing, karate, athletics, rowing, beach volleyball, etc.). From 2022 to 2023, he worked at the OAKA Press Office. She is responsible for communications at the International Boat & Fishing Show, the Andros International Sailing Race and the international track and field meeting “Dromeia”.

Today at newspaper “Kathimerini” she covers 26 of the 28 sports of the Summer Olympic Games and all of the Winter Games, but also deals with issues related to social reporting.