Vytautas Matulevičius

Vytautas Antanas Matulevičius (born 31 July 1952) is a Lithuanian journalist, publicist, political figure and a former member of the Seimas.

Biography In 1970, he finished Vilnius 22nd High School and in 1975 he graduated from Vilnius University Faculty of History where he gained the speciality of journalism. Later on, Matulevičius had postgraduate studies at the Department of Culture of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 1989, Matulevičius defended his dissertation called Contradictions in Public Life and Artistic Conflict (Lithuanian: ).

He was a correspondent and the secretary-in-chief of a newspaper The Truth of Communist Youth (Lithuanian: Komjaunimo tiesa). Between 1992 and 1997 the latter program was broadcast by Lithuanian television and then 1997 until 2001 by Baltijos TV. In 2002, a new program The Vytautas Matulevičius Show (Lithuanian: Vytauto Matulevičiaus laida) started on BTV channel.

Starting from 2002 to 2006 he was the director of the private enterprise Krantas. Between 2004 and 2005 he worked in Lietuvos rytas TV.

In 2020, he, along with journalists Rūta Janutienė and Valdas Vasiliauskas, created a Lithuanian alternative media channel OpTV (short for Oppositional Television) on YouTube aimed at providing "the freedom of speech, investigative journalism, opinions of experts and society, and debates about politics of Lithuania, the Baltic States, and the post-Soviet states at large". This union was formed after all three lost their jobs working for mainstream media channels. According to the description of the channel, their mission is to create channel that is "free from political and informal centres of power".

Political career From 2009 to 2012 Matulevičius worked as an assistant for the Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas. In 2012, he joined the political party Way of Courage and was elected to the Seimas until 2016. He also supported a Lithuanian judge and a former member of Seimas Neringa Venckienė.

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