Archives
Press Releases
One of the main tasks of the Press and Information Office is to inform the Cypriot public about the government work and this is done through the daily issuing of press releases which are distributed to the Press and to other recipients (embassies, Press offices, news agencies, etc). These press releases are then bound in volumes and maintained for archive purposes. Since 2003 the press releases are posted daily on the PIO website. The PIO press releases archive, dating back to 1959, constitutes ... Read more
Newspapers
According to the Press Law in Cyprus newspaper owners have to submit to the PIO, for record keeping, a copy of the newspaper they publish. The newspaper archive was therefore created which dates back to 1878 when the first newspaper was published on the island.
According to archive data more than 200 newspapers have been published since 1878: political, financial, trade unionist, sports, satirist, cultural, agricultural, etc. Most of these newspapers did not remain in circulation for ... Read more
Films
The Cypriot film archive was created in 1989 after a decision of the Council of Ministers which assigned the task of organising and running it to the Press and Information Office. Thus the Section of Audio-Visual Productions was created.
The archive collection includes approximately 200 films made between 1927 and 2008. The main bulk of the collection comprises fiction films, documentaries and short films shot between 1994 and 2002. A second part of the archive is composed of short ... Read more
Photographic Archive
The photographic Archive of the PIO owns a wide array of photographic stock with images from the 1950’s up to today that cover various subjects about Cyprus. The public, the press world, private and governmental operators and organisms can address themselves to the photographic department in order to select the photographs that they need through searching the archives of the department. The images selected are scanned and delivered on a digital disk (CD or DVD) or sent via electronic mail. ... Read more