The courthouse in the town of Volos, in Magnesia, Greece, is housed in an old white building with a front courtyard full of small trees and bushes. Some of the most well-respected journalists in Volos have gotten to know this building all too well over the last three years, having been repeatedly forced to defend […]

Christmas of 2014 found Antonis Repanas, a well-known and respected sports journalist in Thessaloniki, Greece, facing a dead end. He had just been fired by one of the biggest national newspapers in Greece, Ta Nea. Making matters worse, Thessaloniki’s media industry had been hit hard: there were hardly any serious opportunities for a professional journalist. […]

Zur deutschen Version On the morning of Oct. 4, 2017, the one million residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, woke up in a city without a major local daily newspaper. The night before, the storied newspaper Makedonia and its weekly edition, Thessaloniki, had closed down after a long, dark period of conflict between the paper’s staff and […]

Read in English Am Morgen des 4. Oktober 2017 wachten die eine Million Einwohner von Thessaloniki, Griechenland, in einer Stadt ohne große lokale Tageszeitung auf. In der Nacht davor stellte die renommierte Zeitung Makedonia samt ihres Wochenblattes, Thessaloniki, nach einer langen, dunklen Periode des Konfliktes zwischen den Angestellten der Zeitung und dem Management um unbezahlte […]