''To Vima'' ( el, Το Βήμα, lit=The Tribune) is a
Greek
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weekly newspaper first published in 1922 by Dimitris Lambrakis, the father of
Christos Lambrakis
Christos Dimitriou Lambrakis ( el, Χρήστος Δημητρίου Λαμπράκης; 24 February 1934 – 21 December 2009) was the owner of Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), one of the largest newspaper groups in Greece, and arguably the most influ ...
, as ''Elefthero Vima'' (Free Tribune).
It was owned by
Lambrakis Press Group
The Lambrakis Press Group S.A. ( el, Δημοσιογραφικός Οργανισμός Λαμπράκη, ΔΟΛ) was a Greek media company.
Since 1957, it was controlled by Christos Lambrakis and played a dominant role in Greek publishing and ...
(DOL), a group that also publishes the newspaper ''
Ta Nea
''Ta Nea'' ( el, Τα Νέα, italic=yes; Translation: ''The News'') is a daily newspaper published in Athens. It was owned by Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), which also published the newspaper '' To Vima''. The assets of DOL were acquired in 2017 b ...
'', among others in its fold of publications. The assets of DOL were acquired in 2017 by
Alter Ego Media S.A. ''To Vima'' is a high-quality newspaper in
Greece
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, and arguably the most influential in political issues; it was published daily until 2011, but since publishes only its flagship Sunday edition, whose current managing editor is Stavros Psycharis. To Vima is historically the newspaper to which prominent politicians would most commonly provide interviews or write articles.
Eleftherios Venizelos,
Georgios Papandreou
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,
Nikolaos Plastiras,
Constantine Karamanlis
Konstantinos G. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Καραμανλής, ; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998), commonly Anglicisation, anglicised to Constantine Karamanlis or just Caramanlis, was a four-time prime minister and List of he ...
and
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou ( el, Ανδρέας Γεωργίου Παπανδρέου, ; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, ...
are among those who have written for the newspaper.
Content
The newspaper features as columnists prominent
journalist
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s within the Greek media, including Yiannis Pretenderis and Vassilis Moulopoulos. Some of the newspaper's regular columnists include academics, university professors (such as Konstantinos Tsoukalas, Nikos Mouzelis, or Dimitris Psychogios, who contributes under a
pen name
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A pen na ...
), political scientists and a number of
politician
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s. The Sunday edition of the newspaper used to be a staple of the Greek press, while today it competes both with the centre-right ''
To Proto Thema'' and the centrist ''
Kathimerini''. ''To Vima'', by Greek standards, was considered center-left and was politically aligned with the centrist (reformist) wing of the Greek
social-democratic
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party
PASOK
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. The majority of publications from within the Lambrakis Press fold were also politically aligned with the party. Some of its former editors have occupied key ministerial positions with the PASOK, such as
Petros Efthimiou
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and Giorgos Romeos; it is also not uncommon for some of its journalists to stand for parliament, mainly with PASOK. But, after its acquisition by Alter Ego Media, the newspaper's have moved to the center and the
center-right, while being linked to the centrist wing of
New Democracy
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.
Circulation
To Vima had a circulation of 114,035 in October 2014.
References
External links
* - contains searchable index of the Sunday editions since 1996
Digital editionof the daily and the Sunday edition
Publications established in 1922
1922 establishments in Greece
Newspapers published in Athens
Greek-language newspapers
Weekly newspapers published in Greece
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