Athens English Language Newspapers
Athens English Language Newspapers
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News and Scores in AthensNeed your news fix? Can't drink your morning coffee without a paper? There are a number of English language newspapers and you can read the latest news and baseball scores and even get the weekly ferry schedules. |
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There were three brilliant writers that the Athens News either fired or somehow let slip out of their fingers. John Psaropoulos was the editor who kept the ship afloat for a dozen years and even found new owners when the former owners just wanted to close the paper. His reward was a few months at the helm for the new owners and then a parting of ways which has never been explained. But you can keep up with John's view of what is going on in Greece and in the region at The New Athenian or get a subscrption to the excellent Odyssey Magazine(see bellow) of which he is now the managing editor and editorialist. Losing music writer Perri Pagonis in an entertainment oriented city like Athens was like losing Alex Rodrigues during a pennant race. There are not many reviewers who can speak to both fans and musicians when describing a concert. His writing was so good that I would read it even if I could not stand the band he was reviewing. If you google his name you will discover he has written three books in a past-life in Washington DC. Perry is also now with Odyssey Magazine, another reason to get it. Travel writer Diana Farr Louis, whose articles introduced me to many of the places I visited that I might not otherwise have found, including the Athens Zoo is freelancing. In fact I have bought several articles from her on islands I did not feel lie going to or subjects I did not know enough to write about including Cretan Food and the islands of Andros and Spetses. She also has several excellent books on the market including Prospero’s Kitchen: Mediterranean Cooking of the Ionian Islands from Corfu to Kythera, and Feasting and Fasting in Crete. She has written two excellent travel books, Athens and Beyond: 30 Day Trips & Weekends and Travels In Northern Greece all available from Greece In Print |
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Magazines about Greece
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Most
kiosks
around the center
carry the ATHENS NEWS and the International Herald Tribune which are both in English. The IHT comes out daily except Sunday and has a section of the Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini which will give you all the local news and also some information that may be useful to travelers including the ferry schedules though by the time you get the paper most of the boats will have already left. I
have been reading the Athens News for over thirty years and
it's one of my favorites in the whole world but
unfortunately it was bought up by a big company and
turned into a once a week paper that only comes out on Friday.
There are sections on World News, Greek News,
Entertainment, and lots of helpful information for
tourists on the back page about exhibitions, theater,
rock concerts etc. The Greek news In Brief is not what
it used to be but occasionally there is an interesting
article that seems to defy reality. (My favorite is
the one about the shepherd who blew his house up when
his dynamite got wet and he put it on the hearth to
dry. Then there's the human head found by a fisherman
in Crete that had three autopsies done on it before they discovered it was the head of a mannequin and made of plastic.) 
XpatAthens.com
Odyssey Magazine
is available around
Athens but you are better off getting it before you go
by subscription. Their summer preview issue has lots
of valuable information about what is going on in
Athens and around Greece. It comes out every other
month. The writers are very good as is the layout. It
is by far the most professional looking of all the
print media. This is also a wonderful gift to yourself
or someone in your family who is Greek-American or
just loves Greece. Well-written and interesting
articles on subjects you won't find anywhere else
about destinations in Greece, current events and
historical events, artists, writers, politics,
scandals, and culture. It's like the New Yorker but
easier and more fun to read with a lot more pictures.
When I am missing Greece the arrival of Odyssey Magazine softens the pain. Great photography. For info on
special subscription rates