On October 5, 1873, the newspaper "Efimeris" of Athens published the story of a destitute 17-year-old girl from Piraeus who disguises herself as a boy to find work and accommodation in Athens. It is the first narrative in a Greek newspaper, the first "human interest story," as Americans call it, "fait divers," as the French call it, a genre through which the press turns to reality and depicts or recounts everyday life.

The police bulletin, court records, the social margins, and the working class, wars are the privileged spaces from which journalistic storytelling draws its subjects. A double murder in Vilia, which is tried with an interpreter because the perpetrators and witnesses speak only Albanian, a murder in Trikala committed by a local monastery abbot for contraband rolling papers, the living conditions of workers in Lavrio, the bloody incidents between students and police at the Propylaea, the death of General Kalari's son in the Balkan Wars, the arrival of Greek captive soldiers from Asia Minor on a desolate coast of Piraeus, the mysterious crime of Kifisos (the murder of Athanasopoulos) - perhaps the most famous journalistic narrative in the Greek press - the assassination attempt on Eleftherios Venizelos in 1933, where for the first time the narrative rules of cinematic sequences are followed, the social margins of Athens and the prostitutes of Vourla, where for the first time in Greek newspapers we have concealment of identity by the reporter, are some of the narratives used as examples to present this genre in the Greek press.

"Efimeris" is the first daily newspaper published in Greece and belongs to the type of independent newspaper for a large audience, marking the beginning of the Greek century of newspapers. Many titles followed, bringing the poetry of everyday life to the ever-growing readership.

In the book, in addition to the narratives, the carriers of the narrative, the newspapers, their organization, distribution, circulation, their response to technology, and their opening to the outside world are presented. The narrators, the journalists or reporters, their professionalization, their appearance in statistics, as well as their continuous movement between journalism and literature, and vice versa, are also discussed.

"Journalist or Reporter - Narrative in Greek Newspapers, 19th-20th Century" is the first study in which the Greek press is not treated as a chapter of political history but as an autonomous narrative field, with its own rules regarding the functioning of the reporter's gaze, testimony, the first-person perspective, documentation of events, and signatures. As the newspaper as a medium and as a form of archive has lost its dominance today, we can say that this book belongs to a particular area of the science of History known as Media Archaeology.