Athens Journalists Union

The media industry was one of the hardest hit when the financial crisis broke out in Greece. The harsh austerity measures the subsequent governments were forced to take as part of the deal for consecutive packages of bailout money affected many jobs in journalism, with professionals compelled to either change their line of work or lose their social security benefits.

A high-profile and mostly expected “divorce” between brash Parliament president Zoe Konstantopoulou and Alexis Tsipras’ SYRIZA party was finalized on Monday, with the former the latest cadre to bolt what radical critics now term as the “leftist alibi” for the third memorandum.