On the morning of Oct. 4, 2017, the one million residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, woke up in a city without a major local daily newspaper. The night before, the storied newspaper Makedonia and its weekly edition, Thessaloniki, had closed down after a long, dark period of conflict between the paper`s staff and management over unpaid wages. Founded in 1911, Makedonia was the oldest daily news outlet in northern Greece. In an unfortunate coincidence, just two years earlier, in October 2015, Aggelioforos, Thessaloniki`s highest-circulating paper, had printed its last issue and closed down for good. The move left 110 people out of work. The dual closures have dramatically altered the media...
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