In Greece many newspapers have a clear political leaning. Print sales collapsed during the crisis years, and today news is mostly read online and watched on television, though Sunday editions remain popular.
Newspapers and weeklies
| Title | Type | Leaning | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathimerini | Daily, founded 1919 | Centre-right, liberal | kathimerini.gr |
| Ta Nea | Daily | Centre-left | tanea.gr |
| To Vima | Daily and Sunday | Centrist | tovima.gr |
| Efimerida ton Syntakton (EfSyn) | Daily, journalists' cooperative since 2012 | Left | efsyn.gr |
| Proto Thema | Best-selling weekly and website | Centre-right, popular | protothema.gr |
| Eleftheros Typos | Daily | Centre-right | eleftherostypos.gr |
| Avgi | Daily | Left, close to SYRIZA | avgi.gr |
| Rizospastis | Daily | Organ of the Communist Party (KKE) | rizospastis.gr |
| Estia | Daily, one of the oldest | Conservative right | estianews.gr |
| Naftemporiki | Financial daily | Business and finance | naftemporiki.gr |
The historic left-wing daily Eleftherotypia, mentioned in many guides, closed during the crisis; its journalists went on to found Efimerida ton Syntakton. Many regional dailies are published, such as Makedonia and Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki or Nea Kriti in Crete.
Television and radio
- ERT, the public broadcaster, with ERT1, ERT2, ERT3 (from Thessaloniki), ERTNews and radio. In 2013 the government shut it down overnight for budget reasons, amid huge protests; it reopened in 2015.
- The main national private channels: Mega, Antenna (ANT1), Skai, Star, Alpha and Open.
News websites
The most read include those of the big publishing groups (in.gr, protothema.gr, kathimerini.gr) and online-born sites such as iefimerida.gr, news247.gr and cnn.gr, CNN's Greek edition.
Greece in English
| Source | What it offers |
|---|---|
| ekathimerini.com | English edition of Kathimerini, the most complete |
| tovima.com | English news from the To Vima-Ta Nea group |
| ertnews.gr (English section) | Public broadcaster news |
| greekreporter.com | News on Greece and the diaspora |
| keeptalkinggreece.com | Current affairs and oddities, informal tone |
Press freedom
In recent years Greece has ranked among the lowest EU countries in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. Factors include the unsolved 2021 murder of journalist Giorgos Karaivaz in Athens, the Predator spyware wiretapping scandal, which in 2022 also targeted journalists, and concentrated media ownership.
See also politics in Greece.