June 25, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The sudden death of a historic newspaper of the Greek Left, of daily Avgi, was announced on Tuesday. The newspaper politically affiliated with SYRIZA and its predecessor will operate only as Sunday newspaper. The decision was announced to Avgi employees by the Board of Directors of the company that publishes …
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January 12, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The historic newspaper of the Greek left, Avgi,will hold its daily edition after 70 years. The newspaper has apparently fallen victim to financial problems as other daily newspapers in the recent past due to changes in the landscape of printed media and readers habits. Its director posted on social media …
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November 11, 2021
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a lawsuit against a Greek newspaper on Wednesday. The lawsuit submitted to a prosecutor’s office in Ankara refers to a front page of conservative daily “Dimokratia” two years ago. The lawsuit demands imprisonment of up to five years for four high-ranking newspaper staff …
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July 19, 2021
Editor, FEATURED, Social
With the gender-based violence and femicide on the rise in Greece, there are many voices calling for the urgent need for education and self-criticism of the society, the dismantling of stereotypes and no tolerance against such crimes. And there come the conservative misogynists in the mainstream media trying to acquit …
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September 21, 2020
FEATURED, Turkey-GR
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a lawsuit against the editors of a Greek newspaper for an insulting headline, state-run news agency Anadolu reported on Monday morning. Erdogan’s lawyers filed the lawsuit against the editors of conservative daily ‘Dimokratia’ went to print last thursday with a headline, that Ankara described as …
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July 27, 2020
Very Mix
The publisher of small newspaper Makeleio, Stefanos Chios, was shot by an unknown assailant outside his home early Monday morning. The victim survived the assassination attempt seriously injured. The shooting took place around 3 0′ clock in the morning as the publisher was parking his car outside his home in …
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April 10, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greek publisher and journalists Kostas Vaxevanis was briefly detained after the wife of Greece’s central banker Yannis Sournaras filed a lawsuit against him for slander. A day earlier, Vaxevanis newspaper had alleged that Stournaras’ wife was using her husbands’ influence to acquire state contracts for the public relations company. A …
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September 4, 2012
Economy, Society
Journalists and technical staff in Greece’s oldest English speaking newspaper, Athens News, launched a 24-hour strike as they have not been paid for two and a half months. It’s is the second strike of Athens News staff in the last two months. Below the press release uploaded on the newspaper …
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November 1, 2011
Very Mix
One of the biggest newspaper in Greece closes it doors to news. “Eleytherotypia” is the first newspaper published right after the dictatorship, on July 21, 1975 and within a year it was established in one of the large circulation newspapers. The sudden but in fact rather expected end was announced on …
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May 18, 2011
Economy
I have been wondering… should I comment cynical, satirical, offended or just angry? I can’t decide… But slowly an answer comes up in my mind. Yes, we can sell the Acropolis for 1 trillion euro but only to Bild readers and only if they manage to collect this sum with the social care …
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February 24, 2011
Economy
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou stressed that Greece will not sell any of its islands to reduce the country’s debt, according to Reuters. “Anything like that is ruled out,” Papandreou told German newspaper Bild, when asked about selling islands. “You΄ve simply got to understand how important these islands are for …
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