kathimerini
{{Short description|Greek-language daily newspaper}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = I Kathimerini
| logo = Kathimerini-logo.svg
| image = File:Kathimerini front page.jpg
| caption = The newspaper's 10 August 2005 front page
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1919
| founder = Georgios Vlachos
| political = Conservatism
Economic liberalism
Pro-Europeanism
| owner = Nees Kathimerines Ekdoseis Single Member S.A.{{cite web | url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/company-profile/ | title="Νεεσ Καθημερινεσ Εκδοσεισ Μονοπροσωπη Ανωνυμη Εταιρεια" | Η Καθημερινη }} (100% Themistoklis Alafouzos)
| headquarters = Falireos kai Makariou 2, 185-47, Neo Faliro, Piraeus, Athens
| publishing_country = Greece
| maneditor = Alexis Papahelas
| publisher = Themistoklis Alafouzos
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL|kathimerini.gr}}
| circulation =
}}
{{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} (Greek: Η Καθημερινή, {{IPA|el|i.kaθimeriˈni|}}; {{lit|The Daily}}) is a daily, political and financial morning newspaper published in Piraeus, Athens. Its first edition was printed on 15 September 1919.{{Cite book |last1=Doudaki |first1=Vaia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KyapDwAAQBAJ&q=Kathimerini+1919&pg=PA2021 |title=Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Economic Crisis in Greece |last2=Boubouka |first2=Angeliki |date=2019-08-14 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-59015-3 |pages=2021–2022 |language=en}} {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} is considered a newspaper of record{{cite news |date=30 June 2011 |title=What have we become? |url=https://www.economist.com/europe/2011/06/30/what-have-we-become |url-status=live |newspaper=The Economist |archive-url=https://archive.today/20221221121601/https://www.economist.com/europe/2011/06/30/what-have-we-become |archive-date=21 December 2022 |access-date=31 July 2023 |url-access=registration |quote=Kathimerini, Greece's newspaper of record}} and the leading right-wing newspaper in Greece,{{cite news |last1=Papadimas |first1=Lefteris |last2=Papachristou |first2=Harry |date=19 June 2012 |title=Greek rivals near coalition, seek bailout revision |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/greece-election-idINDEE85H0L820120619 |url-status=live |work=Reuters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731135836/https://www.reuters.com/article/greece-election-idINDEE85H0L820120619 |archive-date=31 July 2023 |access-date=31 July 2023 |quote=leading conservative daily Kathimerini}} with the highest circulation{{cite web | url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/1090603/i-kathimerini-einai-i-proti-se-kykloforia-efimerida-gia-triti-synechi-chronia/ | title="Η Καθημερινή" είναι η πρώτη σε κυκλοφορία εφημερίδα για τρίτη συνεχή χρονιά | date=3 August 2020 }} and a strong digital presence.
It is published in Greek and has an English edition, both print and digital.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/|title=News from Greece and the World |website=www.ekathimerini.com|accessdate=January 26, 2025}} Kathimerini English Edition is published in Greece and Cyprus along with the New York Times International. {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} also produces a wide range of leading magazines, including Vogue Greece with Conde Nast International and publications for The Walt Disney Company Greece.
Considered a high-quality{{cite news|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/233430/kathimerini-joins-the-trust-project/|title=Kathimerini joins the Trust Project|date=October 11, 2018|website=www.ekathimerini.com}} broadsheet, {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} began as hard-line conservative, today however identifies with a broad range of the political spectrum, from traditional liberalism to the main conservative right,{{Cite web|title=Kathimerini Publishing SA - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/KATHI:GA|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925142015/https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/KATHI:GA|archive-date=2020-09-25|access-date=2020-09-25|website=www.bloomberg.com}} while covering the positions and hosting analyses from all the main political parties and opinions from columnists with different points of view.{{Cite news |last=Kounalaki |first=Xenia |title=Time for Greece's center-left to cast off old party habits |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/221790/time-for-greece-s-center-left-to-cast-off-old-party-habits/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{Cite web |last=|title=Androulakis: Greece follows EU example of dispatching defensive material to Ukraine |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1178614/androulakis-greece-follows-eu-example-of-dispatching-defensive-materiel-to-ukraine/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{Cite news |last= |title=NATO Summit a 'diplomatic Waterloo' for Greece, says Tsipras |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1188059/nato-summit-a-diplomatic-waterloo-for-greece-says-tsipras/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{Cite news |last= |title=Nikos Kotzias in Kathimerini: Foreign policy and exploratory talks |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/261877/nikos-kotzias-in-kathimerini-foreign-policy-and-exploratory-talks/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{Cite news |last= |title=KKE walks out of Novartis case investigating committee |url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/249865/kke-walks-out-of-novartis-case-investigating-committee/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{Cite web |last= |title=Varoufakis calls for Greek bankruptcy inquiry|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/260316/varoufakis-calls-for-greek-bankruptcy-inquiry/ |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=www.ekathimerini.com |language=English}}{{excessive citations inline|date=January 2023}}
History
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{{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} is a newspaper title with over 100 years of history.{{cite web | url=https://www.kathimerini.gr/100yk/?d=2010 | title=100 Χρόνια Κ - Δεκαετία 2010 }} It was founded by Georgios Vlachos, a prominent antivenizelist, in 1919 and was later inherited by his daughter Helen Vlachos (Eléni Vláchou) and her husband, retired submarine commander Constantine Loundras. {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} was traditionally perceived as one of the main{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} conservative voices of Greek media.World Press Review. [http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/1103.cfm "Reconstructing Iraq"]. June 2003 (vol. 50, No. 6). The newspaper was highly critical of Eleftherios Venizelos in the early 20th century, and also opposed Georgios Papandreou in the postwar years.
It maintains a traditional layout, with its original griffin logo, and incorporates printed supplements in its [https://www.kathimerini.gr/k/sunday-edition/ Sunday edition]. Eleni Vlachou sold the company shortly before her death to George Koskotas, who wanted to control the mass media landscape in favor of Andreas Papandreou and his socialist party.{{Cite book |editor-last1=Bellou |editor-first1= Fotini |editor-last2=Couloumbis|editor-first2=Theodore A. |editor-last3=Kariotis|editor-first3=Theodore C. | title= Greece in the twentieth century | date = 2003 | publisher =Routledge |location = London & New York |language=en | isbn = 9780203045893| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VAhSDS3w9s4C|page =178 }} As the Koskotas scandal was unraveling, Aristeidis Alafouzos, bought {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} newspaper in 1988, pulling it out of a spiral of decline to turn it into one of the country's leading dailies, both in terms of circulation and its influence on economic developments, with an international reputation. Throughout his life, Aristeidis Alafouzos entered the challenging businesses of construction, shipping and publishing and emerged champion in all three.{{cite news|url=https://www.ekathimerini.com/society/218482/a-lifetime-of-hard-work-and-great-achievements/ |title=A lifetime of hard work and great achievements|date=May 17, 2017|publisher=Kathimerini}}
In October 1995, {{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} was assessed as Greece's "nearest equivalant {{sic}} to a newspaper of record".{{cite news |last=Clogg |first=Richard |date=16 October 1995 |title=Obituary: Helen Vlachos |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-helen-vlachos-1578044.html |url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417051113/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-helen-vlachos-1578044.html |archive-date=17 April 2023 |access-date=31 July 2023}} It was later considered a newspaper of record.
Alafouzos died in 2017 and was succeeded by his son Themistoklis Alafouzos.
Circulation
{{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}}{{'}}s daily edition circulation figures are unavailable since the newspaper has prohibited press agencies from releasing such data.{{cite web | url=http://www.newsbomb.gr/media-agb/story/397970/ptosi-stis-kyklofories-ton-efimeridon-gia-to-2013 | title=Πτώση στις κυκλοφορίες των εφημερίδων για το 2013 | publisher=Newsbomb.gr | date=28 January 2014 | access-date=2 August 2015}} Its Sunday edition had a circulation of 95,007 in January 2014.
Editing staff
Company
{{lang|el-latn|Kathimerini}} is published by Nees Kathimerines Ekdoseis Single Member S.A. and was previously listed on the Athens Stock Exchange but it was delisted in December 2015.{{cite news|
date=21 December 2015 |
website=ekathimerini.com|
title=Kathimerini shares delisted from Greek bourse|
access-date=23 July 2017|
url=http://www.ekathimerini.com/204534/article/ekathimerini/business/kathimerini-shares-delisted-from-greek-bourse
}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.kathimerini.gr}} {{in lang|el}}
- [https://www.ekathimerini.com Kathimerini English Edition Website]
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