Neos Kosmos (newspaper)
Neos Kosmos is a national Greek community newspaper in Melbourne, Australia.[1]
Type | Bi-weekly Newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet and tabloid |
Owner(s) | Ethnic Publications Pty. Ltd. |
Founder(s) | Dimitri Gogos, Bill Stefanou and Alekos Doukas |
Editor | Sotiris Hatzimanolis |
Founded | 1957 |
Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
Website | www |
History
Founded in 1957 by Dimitri Gogos, Bill Stefanou and noted author Alekos Doukas. It is published by Ethnic Publications Pty Ltd, and is Australia's longest standing Greek community newspaper.[2]
In its early days, the newspaper was heavily left-leaning, and was considered radical by the Greek community in Australia although it soon grew in popularity.[3] Neos Kosmos was known to advocate for issues which impacted the Greek community, like unionization and worker's rights.[4][5]
The paper was monitored by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation during the Vietnam War, due to its frequent publication of anti-conscription and anti-war sentiments.[6]
It has been published in Greek as a broadsheet on Monday and Thursday and as a tabloid in English and Greek on Saturday since August 2010.
Neos Kosmos has received two Multicultural Media Awards, for best print publication and a high commendation for a print article in Sydney, New South Wales, in 2014.
References
- Tsolidis, Georgina (7 October 2013). Migration, Diaspora and Identity: Cross-National Experiences. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 112. ISBN 978-94-007-7211-3.
- Damousi, Joy (12 November 2015). Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-107-11594-1.
- "Greek-Australians' Neos Kosmos newspaper turns 60, Ioanna Fotiadi | Kathimerini". www.ekathimerini.com. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- Price, Charles Archibald (1975). Greeks in Australia. Australian National University Press. ISBN 978-0-7081-0571-9.
- Gilson, Miriam; Zubrzycki, Jerzy (1967). The foreign-language press in Australia, 1848-1964. Australian National University. p. 88.
- Damousi, Joy (12 November 2015). Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-107-11594-1.