Banking News is a Greek-language online financial news outlet headquartered in Athens. The site launched in October 2009, focusing on banking, stock market and Athens Stock Exchange developments, business reporting, energy news, international financial news, and Greek politics. According to the site’s about page, Banking News is wholly owned by Greek businessman and lawyer Petros Leotsakos (Πέτρος Λεωτσάκος) through Bankingnews Single-Shareholder Corporation (Bankingnews Μονοπρόσωπη Α.Ε.).
The Journalists’ Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (Ένωσις Συντακτών Ημερησίων Εφημερίδων Αθηνών) is a Greek trade union representing journalists at Athens-based daily newspapers and broadcast media. The union was established on December 14, 1914, with the aim of negotiating collective labor agreements for its members, monitoring press ethics, and defending pluralism in Greek media.
The Hellenic Union of Editors of Periodical Press (Ένωση Δημοσιογράφων Ιδιοκτητών Περιοδικού Τύπου), or HUEPP, is a Greek professional association based in Athens representing journalists who are also owners of printed periodicals, including newspapers and magazines. The association, founded in 1939, represents the interests of its members to the government and the media industry at large. It isa national member of the International Federation of Periodical Publishers (FIPP), and is also a member of the European Newspaper Publishers’ Association (ENPA) and the European Magazine Media Association (EMMA).
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide (希臘海事新聞網) is a Piraeus-based English-language maritime news outlet founded in 2006 that describes itself as an “online daily newspaper on Hellenic and international shipping.” The site covers shipping and maritime trade, shipbuilding, ports, marine insurance, shipping law, freight markets, commodities, oil and energy, world economy news, and stock markets, and distributes a free daily newsletter to recipients in more than 165 countries.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中國社會科學院), or CASS, is the PRC’s official state research institution in the humanities and social sciences and a vehicle for shaping how China is talked about both at home and abroad. Founded in May 1977 out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the ministry-level body sits under the State Council and counts more than 4,200 staff across 31 institutes and four national high-end think tanks. CASS describes itself as a “theoretical bastion of Marxism” (馬克思主義的理論陣地) and controls 95 academic journals, five publishing houses, the CSSN portal, and three newspapers led by Chinese Social Sciences Today (中國社會科學報), launched on July 1, 2009. The academy is also a key node in the Party’s push for “discourse power” (話語權), an effort to set global agendas framing itself as an alternative to dominant Western narratives. CASS has established 17 overseas China research centers, helped initiate the World Association for China Studies (世界中國學研究聯合會), or WACS, and hosts forums such as the World Conference on China Studies, which aims to build a global academic community for a deeper understanding of China.
China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (中國遠洋海運集團有限公司) is a state-owned shipping and logistics conglomerate headquartered in Shanghai, owned by the State Council and supervised by SASAC. The group was formally established on February 18, 2016, following the State Council’s January 2016 approval of a merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and China Shipping (Group) Company, itself preceded by a December 2015 approval of the restructuring plan. The group has invested in 21 container terminals, port facilities where containers are loaded onto and unloaded from ships, including those at Greece’s Piraeus port and in Abu Dhabi. According to its history page, the group states that its mission includes contributing to the construction of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” (21世紀海上絲綢之路), the seaborne component of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (一帶一路), aimed at extending Chinese commercial and strategic reach across Eurasian and Indo-Pacific trade routes.
Alpha TV is a Greek free-to-air national television channel headquartered in Kifissia, a northern suburb of Athens. The station launched on September 27, 1999, briefly operating as Alpha Sky before adopting its present name. The channel airs Greek-language programs including original domestic fiction, live talk and entertainment shows, daily news bulletins under the Alpha News banner, and international films and series.
Proto Thema (Πρώτο Θέμα) is a Greek Sunday newspaper first published on February 27, 2005 by well-known Greek journalists Themos Anastasiadis, Makis Triantafyllopoulos, and Tassos Karamitsos. Triantafyllopoulos has previously been accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda by the anti-propaganda portal Propastop, and by the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. A report by the Greek investigative outlet InsideStory.gr in 2024 revealed that Tassos Karamitsos among a number of journalists illegally surveilled by the Greek prime minister’s office. Based in Athens, Proto Thema covers politics, economics, sports, lifestyle, and tabloid-style news, and it also has an online portal. In July 2024, it launched an AI-powered English edition funded by Google.
