AthensLiveIn 2015, Greece took 91st place in the World Press Freedom Index, establishing it as the second-lowest ranking for a country inside the European Union. Open Society Foundations has stated that Greece is the EU member state in the most acute journalistic crisis.
However, under Syriza, journalists are not facing the violent suppression by the government and police that has been characteristic in the past. The abysmal state of the Greek press is more complicated than that. Our censorship is self-censorship. Our crisis is a crisis of capitalism. A new independent media project called AthensLive sets out to address these issues.
As a collaboration between Greek and international journalists, including the visual journalists of FOSPHOTOS, AthensLive is building an alternative to a Greek press that is corporate-owned and bound to established political interests. AthensLive will provide English-language reporting, analysis, and commentary on the situation from Athens and throughout Greece. Independent and crowdfunded, its work will be accountable to its readers and no one else.
