Estia

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Estia

Type	Daily evening newspaper
Format	broadsheet

Owner	Alexis Zaousis
Editor	L. Dimakopoulou
Founded	1876/1894
Political allegiance	conservative
Headquarters	Athens, Greece

Website: www.estianews.gr

Estia (Greek: Ἑστία) is a national newspaper published daily in Athens, Greece. It is generally considered a high-quality broadsheet of a very conservative, center-right political alignment, although Estia is seen as independent from political parties.

1 Language
2 Format and Layout
3 History
4 Sources and Links

[edit] Language

Since the political opinion and the language used by a publication in Greece are usually closely connected, Estia is also known for its conservative language. It is also the only daily newspaper still written in Katharevousa, a puristic and archaist form of modern Greek that has been abolished as administrative language in 1976. It must, however, be stated that Estia makes use of a very moderate form of Katharevousa. Since Katharevousa requires the old, polytonic system of accentuation, Estia has also refused to follow the Greek accentuation reform of 1982.

[edit] Format and Layout

In order to be able to maintain the polytonic system of accentuation, Estia did not switch to a modern computer system until 1997, when Unicode-enabled software had become more widely available. Until then, the newspaper continued to be set and printed using Linotype machines. Estia is one of the few Greek newspapers printed in broadsheet format. It normally contains only about eight pages a day. There are no pictures on the front page, and no colour photographs at all. The Greek typeface used for headlines and most of the texts is Asteria.

[edit] History

In 1876, Adonis Kyrou I. founded a weekly publication named Ἑστία, which was a literary magazine similar to the present-day Nea Estia (Νέα Ἑστία) rather than a news-focused paper. Not until 1894 the well-known poet and journalist Georgios Drosinis transformed it into a daily newspaper for politics, culture and economy. In 1941, during the occupation of Greece by the German army, Estia closed, but soon after the liberation it was founded again. Estia has been managed by the Kyrou family for more than 120 years. Adonis Kyrou II. was its publisher from 1898 to 1918, Achilleus A. Kyrou from 1918 to 1950, Kyros Kyrou from 1950 to 1974, and Adonis Kyrou III. from 1974 until 1997, when the paper was taken over by Kyrou's nephew Alexis Zaousis. The current editor-in-chief is L. Dimakopoulou.