Lambrakis Press

Those who during the years of the great economic and political crisis fought to save the most important and trustworthy media titles and brand names feel relieved and vindicated with the result of last Friday's tender for the assets of Mega Channel, which for decades graced Greek television offering high-quality news, entertainment, and cultural programmes.

Those of us who have experienced the generalised crisis in the Greek media, including the Lambrakis Press (DOL), during the last decade of deep recession know first hand the intensity and depth of the efforts of then rising political forces, especially the current government, to co-opt the media.

Greece's influential center-left Ta Nea newspaper has resumed publication five days after running out of newsprint due to its parent Lambrakis Press's acute financial problems.

The daily reappeared on newsstands Tuesday, the Associated Press reported, a day after an Athens court agreed to unfreeze one of the group's bank accounts to cover publication costs.