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AN-14/18 Letters What our readers think of us We wish to thank our readers differences, so I won’t, except to say that Athens looked to the Athens News for story ideas and a person like John to cut through the crap and say News has its own voice and an independence that inspiration, on issues as diverse as immigration, what needs to be said. heartily for writing in and others lack. the environment, antiquities and more. Being on pension and with only modest supporting this newspaper at a Jack Davis The Athens News is an intelligent and resources, I have cut out all my old subscriptions Director, American School of Classical enjoyable read, and the fact that it is printed in to newspapers and magazines and now depend critical time. They have always been Studies at Athens English makes it instantly accessible to foreign entirely on the Athens News - that’s how highly correspondents based in Greece. I know that I rate the newspaper. the decisive force that keeps this other reporters working for various foreign media David Willis newspaper alive, and proved it An investigative reporter organisations feel exactly the same way. We fear Thessaloniki THE ATHENS NEWS has always been far more that without this resource, we will be gravely out again last week. We received over than just an “English language newspaper of touch with our host community. 350 letters - here is a selection published in Greece”. Such papers exist in almost These are professional concerns. At a personal Pledge money to save Athens News every country outside the English-speaking world. level, as foreigners living in your city, we can say I AM a senior executive in a US company who The Athens News has always been, and remains, that we feel to be more “Athenian” as a result of has spent significant amount of time in Athens quite simply one of the best newspapers published reading the Athens News. It helps us understand since early 2002. During that entire time, your A weekly gift of integrity in Greece. Anyone who can read Greek soon Greeks, and it helps diverse immigrant newspaper, the Athens News, has been my first – comes to realise that most Greek newspapers are and preferred – source of news about what’s going avid reader of the Athens News I would communities succeed in this wonderful and AS AN nothing more than outlets for the political on in Greek politics and business. I recommend like to express my concern that your weekly gift tolerant country. opinions of their owners. Reading the Athens it to all my clients – and to my Greek friends and to the Athenians will not cease to inform and Barnaby Phillips News has always been one of the best ways of colleagues – and they all agree: Athens News is amuse its stalwart readership. Such examples of Al Jazeera English, Europe Correspondent, finding out what actually is going on in Greece. the best example of balanced, ethical, thorough, integrity and consistency are hard to come by. Athens In my opinion it is alone in its determination professional reporting in Greece, and is, in my Prof Thanos Veremis to do real investigative reporting, something view, the best newspaper Lambrakis publishes. National Council of Education sorely lacking in Greek journalism today. Its Relevant, informative, independent As a sign of my sincerity, I hereby pledge that current editor, John Psaropoulos, has done a THE ATHENS NEWS is doing more than just a I will give an additional $300 (over and above my Independent, analytical superb job of producing a weekly paper that is decent job. This is the paper that for decades was annual subscription) to the Athens News should also topical and current. The loss of the Athens I HAVE enjoyed the Athens News’ independent dismissed as a joke - despite the best efforts of its you agree to delay the shutdown until January News would be a disaster for political, cultural harried, underpaid staff - and yet somehow 2009. I am sure there are other dedicated readers and analytical coverage and I believe it will be a and intellectual life in Greece. loss if the newspaper closes down. I hope you’ll survived. The change of ownership in 1993 led to like myself who would do the same if an appeal Prof JD Muhly a massive improvement in quality and were made to them. manage to find a solution to the current problem Former Director of the American School of and continue operations. respectability which, despite the odd hiccough, Jay Creutz Classical Studies continued unabated over 16 years. Out went the Vice-President, Transnational Venture Helen Louri-Dendrinou Palio Faliro Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece junk, in came the features. Consultants, Inc So you now have a paper that has never Indispensable before been in better shape. It is relevant, The Lambrakis flagship publication informative, clearly independent - what Greek A very valuable informer WE HAVE lived in Greece as expatriots for 60 publication can claim the same? - and arguably FOR ME as the Senior Anglican Chaplain to the AS ONE OF only a few independent newspapers years and have often relied on the Athens News in Greece, the Athens News plays an important unrivalled in its niche market. Anglican Church in Greece the Athens News has for non-biased reporting of controversial issues Nicholas Paphitis proved to be almost an essential tool for my work role in informing and entertaining an ever- as well as an overview of news, cultural events increasing English-speaking community in Associated Press among the Anglophone residents of Greece. It and editorial perspectives. It will be a great loss also greatly assists in my role as an interpreter of Greece. To many people, both in Greece and to the English-speaking community and their abroad, it is the Foundation’s flagship publication; Greece to institutions in the UK and elsewhere. involvement in Greek affairs. A clear window to Greek society Furthermore, the Anglican Church in Greece and under Mr Psaropoulos it has maintained high Bruce and Elizabeth Lansdale editorial standards that set an example to other IN THESE very tense times for independent (which has eleven congregations throughout the Forty years director of the American Farm journalism in Greece (and the world), it is country) has relied heavily on the Athens News Greek newspapers. School, Thessaloniki While a change of ownership may benefit a imperative to continue publishing the Athens to publish details of its activities and services newspaper, it is important to ensure continuity News, one of the clear and important windows to nationwide. If the closure of the Athens News during the process. The Athens News has more to An important service Greek society and the region. We journalists does occur, it would leave the Anglican Church in really hope that the Athens News will survive. Greece bereft of virtually the only way in which offer an investor in its present form as a high- THIS PAPER has served an important Hristo Ivanovski it has been able to make contact with the widely quality weekly with a dedicated staff of constituency well for many decades and has Diplomatic Editor dispersed Anglophone population of Greece. professional journalists than as a mere title, recently been responsible for ensuring that issues Dnevnik (daily newspaper), Skopje The service and benefits the Athens News however respected it may be. of Greek culture, life and politics reach an renders to the Anglophone population of Greece As a publisher of international standing and Anglophone readership. is truly incalculable and should not be judged long experience, I am sure that you will take into Mary Beard consideration the concerns of correspondents like Key to Greek-Turkish understanding simply on whether or not the Athens News Professor of Classics, University of LIKE MANY people outside Greece I read the myself, for whom the Athens News is essential Cambridge realises an acceptable financial profit. reading. Athens News via the internet edition, and regard Revd Canon Malcolm Bradshaw Kerin Hope it as an invaluable source of information and Senior Anglican Chaplain, Athens Athens Correspondent, A world-class newspaper independent critical comment. This is particularly Financial Times/Economist WE SHOULD have known that as an English- important here in Turkey, where the media language publication in a Greek world, the Athens coverage on Greece is insufficient. Most people Don’t silence an essential voice News should not be taken wholly for granted; it in Turkey, like myself, do not have access to the Intelligent, comprehensive wasn’t always here; even though it seemed to be Greek language media, and the Athens News AS AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING resident of THE ATHENS NEWS is a noble enterprise. always here for us. So, we are more than provides us with an essential source, which makes Greece for almost 30 years (22 of them in Especially in recent years, under the editorship surprised, perhaps shocked is not too strong a an important contribution to mutual Athens), I have come to rely on the Athens News of John Psaropoulos, the Athens News has word, to learn now that the Athens News might understanding between the two countries. Hence, for its full, varied and impartial coverage of provided the most intelligent and fair-minded be shut down. And what is so sad for us is that this its closure would be a serious loss. events throughout Greece. Under the editorship editorials available in Greece and beyond, and the is not because of a fiscal crisis or a failure on the William Hale of John Psaropoulos, the paper has gone even coverage of important Greek news has been part of the paper, but due to a business decision Emeritus Professor, University of London, further in providing intelligent critiques on the exemplary.
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