Proto Thema

Proto Thema (Greek: Πρώτο Θέμα, pronounced [ˌproto ˈθema] English: Lead Story) is a Greek newspaper, published every Sunday. It was launched in 2005 by Makis Triantafyllopoulos, Themos Anastasiadis, and Tassos Karamitsos.

Proto Thema

Type	weekly newspaper
Publisher	Proto Thema A.E.
Founded	2005 (2005)
Political alignment	Conservative Liberalism, Pro-New Democracy
Language	Greek
City	Athens
Country	Greece
Website	www.protothema.gr
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Proto Thema has repeatedly achieved sales of over 300,000 and has become the greatest success story in the history of Greek media. Throughout its era with Themos Anastasiadis as publisher Thema was the best-known, most influential and the biggest Greek newspaper. As of 2006, it frequently led the chart of top-selling Sunday newspapers, ahead of To Vima and Eleftherotypia. Proto Thema A.E. the company the publishes the newspaper also owns several websites, magazines and a radio station. Additionally, it is important to mention that Thema is the only Greek newspaper with low borrowing and high profitability.

In late December 2005, the newspaper broke the story of an alleged coverup by the Greek government of torture of Pakistani terrorist suspects.[1][2]

Triantafyllopoulos left the newspaper after a disagreement with his partners related to Zachopoulos (minister in Kostas Karamanlis government) sex scandal.

The newspaper has been widely being criticised of being closely affiliated and/or even getting funded through third-party sources with the New Democracy political party and supporting the current Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The newspaper was also linked to the spread of certain fake news.[3]

The newspaper reportedly harassed Ingeborg Beugel, a Dutch journalist, by releasing her address to the public.[4]