''Eleftheros Typos'' (, in English, "Free Press") is a daily newspaper published in
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
.
It was founded in 1916 by Andreas Kavafakis, a liberal
Venizelist
Venizelism () was one of the major political movements in Greece beginning from the 1910s. The movement first formed under Eleftherios Venizelos in the 1910s and saw a resurgence of support in the 1960s when Georgios Papandreou united a coaliti ...
politician. Kavafakis was murdered in 1922 by anti-Venizelists (see
National Schism
The National Schism (), also sometimes called The Great Division, was a series of disagreements between Constantine I of Greece, King Constantine I and Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over Kingdom of Greece, Greece's foreign policy from 19 ...
) and the newspaper was closed in 1927.
It was republished temporarily in the 1960s by Tegopoulos/Kavafakis.
It was republished in 1983 by the Lilian Voudouri Press Foundation. Eminent in liberal and conservative circles, it vied for the top sales spot in the 1980s, but today trails its left-of-center competitors by a margin, though still retaining its influence. It is characterized by a pro-
European Union
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, approach to foreign policy, and supports liberal reforms in the Greek economy. It was purchased by ship-owner and prominent businessman
Theodore Angelopoulos, husband of
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born Ioanna Daskalaki, December 12, 1955) is a Greek businesswoman and Ambassador-at-Large for the Hellenic Republic. She is best known for being the leader of the bidding and organizing committees for the 2004 Summ ...
.
On 22 June 2009, the shareholders' general meeting decided to cease operations of ''Free Press'', ''Press Sunday'' and ''Radio City SA''. The decision caused a number of media to go on strike for 24 hours. The newspaper permanently shut down all operations on 22 June 2009.
In 2009, SABD Ekdotiki SA
obtained the rights to the newspaper title and the newspaper returned to the stands on November 9, 2009.
References
External links
Ελεύθερος Τύπος official website
1916 establishments in Greece
Newspapers established in 1983
Greek-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Athens
Daily newspapers published in Greece
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