GROwnership & classification
Founded: 1919
Ownership
Kathimerini is a Greek daily newspaper of record, founded in 1919 by the antivenizelist journalist Georgios Vlachos and later run by his daughter Helen Vlachos. Since 1988 it has been owned by the Alafouzos shipping family; following Aristides Alafouzos's death in 2017 it passed to his sons, and it forms part of the family's Skai Group (Skai TV, radio and digital), controlled principally by Giannis Alafouzos.
Funding
It is financed by advertising and subscriptions, and is one of the few Greek dailies to operate a digital paywall, backed by the resources of the wider Skai/Alafouzos media group.
Affiliation & stance
Editorially Kathimerini is centre-right and reliably supportive of the governing New Democracy party, yet it is owned by a private shipping family and not by a party or the state. That private commercial ownership supports an INDEPENDENT classification, though its strong pro-government alignment and concentrated owner control place it near the DEPENDENT line; the site's CENTER_RIGHT lean is accurate.
Editorial lean
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- Lean Right
- Measured from coverage
- Centerbased on 625
85/100
Factual
79/100
Objective
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