Vaia Doudaki works as a senior researcher at Charles University in Prague. In the past, she worked as an associate professor at Uppsala University, and as a lecturer and assistant professor at the Cyprus University of Technology. Her research is situated in the fields of alternative media studies, journalism studies, and discourse studies. Her latest book (co-edited with Nico Carpentier) is Cyprus and its Conflicts. Representations, materialities and cultures (2018).Angeliki Boubouka is a professional journalist and an independent media researcher. She has been practicing journalism for print and online media in Greece, since 1993. She has also worked as a research associate for the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at Cyprus University of Technology. Her work on the news framing of the economic crisis in Greece and in Cyprus has been published in Journalism and in European Journal of Communication.

• List of figures and tablesIntroduction: assumptions and foundations, Vaia Doudaki1. The economic crisis in Greece: short account of events and actors, Angeliki Boubouka2. Media and representations of the economic crisis, Angeliki Boubouka and Vaia Doudaki3. Discourses of legitimation in the news: concepts and dimensions, Vaia Doudaki4. Analysing discourse: legitimation and its mechanisms in the Greek bailout news, Vaia DoudakiConcluding reflections, Vaia DoudakiIndex