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To Vima

Greek center-right / pro-establishment

Owned byAlter Ego Media S.A., controlled by Greek shipping magnate and football-club owner Evangelos Marinakis. Alter Ego bought the former Lambrakis Press Group (DOL) assets in 2017. Marinakis also owns Ta Nea and other outlets, and has been expanding his media holdings.
FundingMainly newspaper sales, advertising and digital revenue, backed by a wealthy owner with shipping, sports and media businesses. It also runs an English-language international edition, launched in partnership with The Wall Street Journal.
On the administrationmixed

Background

To Vima was founded in 1922 by Dimitrios Lambrakis and became the flagship of the Lambrakis Press Group (DOL). The group also published Ta Nea. Historically it was seen as a liberal, modernizing, establishment paper, and its Sunday edition (Vima tis Kyriakis) was influential. DOL fell deep into debt in the 2010s, and in early 2017 the closure of its titles was announced for economic reasons. Later in 2017 Alter Ego Media, controlled by Marinakis, acquired DOL's assets and kept the papers going. Marinakis owns the Olympiacos football club, has a stake in Nottingham Forest and is a major shipowner. Press-freedom groups, including the International Press Institute, have cited his holdings in reports on concentration of media ownership and political ties in Greece. Media Bias/Fact Check now rates the paper right-center with mixed factual reporting. It describes Marinakis as close to the Mitsotakis family and the paper as critical of opposition figures such as Alexis Tsipras. The international English edition, tovima.com, publishes news and analysis aimed at a global audience. I found no thorough, current study of its Trump-era coverage, so any characterization of its stance rests on limited examples.

Sources

  1. To Vima - Wikipedia
  2. To Vima - Bias and Credibility - Media Bias/Fact Check
  3. Media Capture in Greece: Entanglement of the fourth estate (IPI)
  4. Greece - Euromedia Ownership Monitor
  5. Greece - Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026
  6. Athens: US ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle out (eurotopics)
  7. Greece's Historical Newspapers TA NEA, TO VIMA to close due to economic reasons (Keep Talking Greece)
  8. To Vima Expands Global Reach with English Edition in Partnership with The Wall Street Journal (Greek News USA)

Profile compiled 2026-10-15; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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