🔴A small New Year’s gift (and a big ask)

Dear friends,

We’ve just sent you the 336th edition of Athens Live Wire, a pretty wild number when you stop to think about it. Consider this edition a little New Year gift from us to you: a snapshot of Greece as we see it, made with care, stubbornness and a lot of love for independent journalism and the international community we serve.

As we step into 2026, we’re also stepping into a big year for Athens Live: our 10th anniversary. That milestone has us thinking hard about the next 10 years, and what it will take not just to survive, but to truly grow.

This is where you come in.

If you’ve been following us as a subscriber, you already play an important role in this story. In 2026, we’d like to invite you to take one step closer and become a member of Athens Live.

Apart from receiving the AthensLive Wire and being part of our community calls, membership is how we:

• Become more stable and independent,

• Plan long term instead of surviving issue to issue,

• And bring you closer to the conversations about where this organization goes next.

If you’ve ever thought “Athens Live should exist in 5–10 years from now,” becoming a member is one of the most direct ways to help make that possible.

Thank you for reading, subscribing, opening our emails, and letting Athens Live Wire into your inbox.

We don’t take that for granted for a second.

From all of us at Athens Live, we wish you a healthy, calmer, and more hopeful 2026 – and we hope we’ll walk through it together, as members of the same community.

With gratitude,

The Athens Live team