Seventeen months after Eleftherotypia closed because it was not able to pay hundreds of journalists, the noted newspaper was set to begin publishing again on Jan. 10.
The paper, along with the Sunday edition Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia, its magazines and inserts such as Epsilon, Gourmet as well as ENET by the Tegopoulos brothers and the businessman Thanasis Tegopoulos will be back in business.
An announcement at the Athens Stock Exchange stated that X.K. Tegopoulos Publishing had signed a contract with Triti Opsi, which is undertaking the new venture and putting up 90 percent of the capital. This was reportedly the first step of a consolidation from the Tegopoulos company so as not to affect its assets.
Eleftherotypia was first published in 1975. Breaking the trend of Greek press, it was originally owned by its journalists. Greece’s crushing economic crisis, which cut deep in the profits of media companies, forced it to close in August of 2011.
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