"The National Herald"

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The National Herald is an American weekly newspaper and online publication (since 2004) covering events in the life of the Greek community of the United States and the diaspora as a whole, as well as Greece, Cyprus and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Founded in 1997, it is the English-language version of the American Greek-language newspaper Ethnicos Kirix, the oldest, largest and most influential daily newspaper of the Greek Diaspora, opened in 1915.

E.K. is one of the oldest continuously published daily newspapers in the United States and the only daily Greek-language newspaper in North America. According to Greek-American writer and investigative journalist Nicholas Gage, “TNH is one of the best ethnic newspapers published in the United States, and its online publication is the best source of news about Greeks and American Greeks available on the Internet.”

Headquartered in Long Island City (Queens, New York). It has offices in Greece and Cyprus. The current editor-publisher is Antonis Diamataris.

History

XX century

The Age of Petros Tatanis

Ethnicos Cyrix was founded on April 2, 1915 in Manhattan, New York, by a wealthy young Greek merchant, Petros (Peter) Tatanis, born on July 20, 1885 in Amalas, Peloponnese, Greece. This came a few years after the first major wave of Greek immigration to America. For several years Tatanis lived in Egypt, and later in 1905 he came to New York as a representative of a company owned by his mother's brothers. The company was engaged in the export of flour, oil and textiles, as well as the import of coffee, cooperated with major European states and colonies, such as Egypt and India, using private ships. Its central office in New York was located on Wall Street.

Originally, E.K. was sold in newsstands in New York, and later in all cities of the country where Greek immigrants lived. Its first editor-in-chief was Dimitrios Kallimachos, a native of Thrace (Greece).

Tatanis invested $100,000 in the bank as a guarantee that his newspaper would be published steadily, rather than shutting down after a short time, as was the case with many previous Greek newspapers.

Ethnicos Kiriks was not the first Greek newspaper in the United States. At the time of its inception and after, dozens of newspapers were established in the United States, and often shortly thereafter closed. One example is the authoritative newspaper Atlantis, the first successful and largest Greek-language newspaper in the United States, founded on March 3, 1894 by entrepreneur Solon J. Vlasto. With the advent of E.K., the two newspapers began to compete. Unlike the pro-monarchist Atlantis, which fanatically supported the King of Greece Constantine I, the Ethnicos Kiriks newspaper initially sided with the Prime Minister of Greece, the Republican Eleftherios Venizelos, at the initiative of which the Greek leader was elected