The National Herald is an English-language Greek American

Greek American

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 weekly newspaper in New York

New York

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 that was founded in 1997. It is the sister publication of the long-running Eθνικός Κήρυξ (Ethnikos Kirix, also Ethnikos Kirikas) the only daily Greek language

Greek language

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 newspaper in the United States

United States

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The National Herald is aimed at Greek American and Cypriot American

Cypriot American

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 readers in the U.S. It focuses on news related to the Greek American community and also reports and analyzes news from Greece and Cyprus.

Its headquarters are in Long Island City, NY, near the historic center of the Greek American community of Astoria, Queens

Astoria, Queens

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. The company has another central office in Athens, Greece.

Newspaper motto: "Bringing the news to generations of Greek Americans".

History

Some main points in the history of Ethnikos Kirix and The National Herald:

1915 - The Greek-language Ethnikos Kirix was founded by merchant Petros Tatanis in New York, on April 2, 1915.

1947 - Babis Marketos took over the company and was the paper's publisher for 30 years.

1976 - Eugene Rossides, an Undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury

United States Department of the Treasury

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 and founder of the American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee

American Hellenic Institute Public Affairs Committee

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, becomes the publisher of The National Herald.

1979 - Publisher/Editor Antonis H. Diamataris purchases the newspaper.

1982 - Ethnikos Kirix relocates from Manhattan

Manhattan

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 to Long Island City.

1984 - The newspaper obtains its own high–speed presses.

1997 - Weekly English-language newspaper The National Herald is launched.

2002 - 2003 The National Herald starts home delivery service to the New York Tri-State area

Tri-state area

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 and New England.

2004 - The National Herald launches its website.

2005 - Ethnikos Kirix and The National Herald relocates to its present headquarters at 37-10 30 St. Long Island City, New York

Long Island City, Queens

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