Bulgaria's Electronic Media Council Appoints New National TV Head

15 July 2010
The Council of Electronic Media (CEM) has appointed long-time journalist and news anchor Vyara Ankova the Director of the Bulgarian National Television.

A total of seven bidders originally applied for the position. One of them was not allowed to participate because of incomplete documentation, and another one - because he was found to have been a collaborator of the State Security service of the former communist regime.

Vyara Ankova was born in 1966. She has a degree in English from the Sofia University. She took up a job as a reporter at the Bulgarian National TV in 1991, and has subsequently been a news anchor. She has specialized with CNN and the BBC in the early 1990s.