Greek newspaper gives scream broke survival! A symbol of Greek drama. A newspaper failed by mismanagement newsstands now back in a desperate attempt to attract capital.

In a last breath of life, Eleftherotypia, the second largest Greek daily returns newsstands today, after having been closed on last December 22, leaving about 800 employees with unpaid wages since August 2011.

"This is a final special edition for everyone to know that we are still here at this crucial moment in our history," explains Yannis Triadis, a columnist with the newspaper. One issue to try to attract capital, showing the vitality of the project and the despair of the journalists to continue.

It is a typical story of Greece today, loaded with symbolism for the moment that the country is experiencing. "For years, there have been a large number of management errors in the newspaper. Everyone knew what was happening and nobody did anything to solve it, "says a Triadis, without realizing what could be speaking of his own country. "One day the newspaper died," he says.

Greece goes to the polls Sunday in a dizzy maze of stories of mismanagement (in Athens but also crisis management in Europe), that everyone seemed to know, but in the middle of a road cushioned European integration helped, nobody did anything. The journalists could not pick and were surprised by the closure, but tomorrow the Greeks increasingly on their own, will have to decide. Or follow the rocky path of adjustment and uncertain, thus ensuring the promise of international funding at the expense of great pain, a wound open social combing two years ago that has not stopped bleeding. Or follow another path also uncertain, self-determination in relation to its creditors, risking losing external funding and eventually killed by the European family.

The newspaper was abandoned by lenders for almost a year. And journalists, most of which is identified with the center left, decided at a meeting of about 120 writers, go to this special issue by appointing a committee of self-management to conduct the work. Yesterday, Triadis and colleagues gesticulated and shouted, avid editing frenzy that had not for many months. The first page ran by all, with heated discussions around each word, upon the ears of the pager and the mix too many cigarettes.

All this in a huge building for a newspaper, perhaps greater than the Agency Luso in Lisbon, where he once worked about 800 employees, including editing, production and printing. The team of editors met again, occupying offices empty, abandoned computers. "Now solution" was the headline chosen. The thinking in the country but also in the newspaper.
[link to economico.sapo.pt]