Estia

The Estia (Greek Ἑστία ) is appearing in Athens Greek daily. They had about 3,900 readers in 1995. Culturally, the Estia is classified as extremely conservative, politically moderate- conservative. As the mouthpiece of linguistic purists it is a niche product in the newspaper market and finds its readership in all political directions. In particular, it has long warned of the increasing use of foreign words and in this context before using the Latin script.

The last newspaper she uses since 1976, abolished as an official language purist Katharevousa, but in a very moderate form. In addition to the (now converted to the monotonic system ) Eleftheri Ora the Estia is also the only message-oriented newspaper that has not followed the orthographic reform of 1982, that is still the polytonische system applies.

History

1876 ​​in Athens founded by Adonis Kyrou a weekly magazine called Ἑστία, the content, however, less a political newspaper was rather than a literary and literary publication. The then Estia was thus rather similar to today's Nea Estia; until 1894 it changed the well-known poet Georgios Drosinis into a daily newspaper for politics, culture and economy. In 1941, after the invasion of the German army, the Estia has been set, after the liberation by the Allies, however, soon appeared again.

Since its inception, the newspaper was in the hands of Kyrou family. Until 1997, Adonis was Kyrou ( not to be confused with the eponymous founder ) publisher who is also known for several books. The current editor is Zaousis Alexis, who also publishes the newspaper. The editor is called L. Dimakopoulou.

The Estia was the last newspaper in the world that has been set and printed in the old method of Linotypie / stereotype until it is switched in 1997 to a modern computer system ( desktop publishing ) (Source: newspaper To Vima of 21 December 1997 in a review of a book by Adonis Kyrou; Article also available on the Internet ).

Sources and links

• The website of Estia (currently under construction )
• That article from To Vima
• Greek newspaper industry in general

• Newspaper ( Greece)
• Greek -language newspaper
• First publication in 1876