Summary
This is a list of newspapers in Italy, ordered according to category/scope and circulation.
The number of daily print newspapers in Italy was 107 in 1950, whereas it was 78 in 1965.[1] It has further declined since and 74 are listed in this article: 21 countrywide newspapers (including some "opinion" or "political" newspapers with very limited circulation, that are available only in Rome and few other places), 50 regional or local newspapers (some of which have a larger circulation than most countrywide ones) and 3 sports newspapers (all three having a much larger circulation on Mondays).[2] The total circulation (both in print and digital) of the 56 newspapers tracked by Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa (ADS) was 1,755,092 in January 2024, down from 2,292,549 for 57 newspapers in January 2020.[3][4] Corriere della Sera, based in Milan, has the largest circulation — more than 200,000 on average —, and has more than 500,000 digital subscribers.[5]
Political parties used to have their own newspapers, most of which have been either disbanded or transformed into online publications. They have included Avanti! (est. 1896, Italian Socialist Party), Il Popolo d'Italia (est. 1914, Italian Socialist Party / National Fascist Party), La Voce Repubblicana (est. 1921, Italian Republican Party), Il Popolo (est. 1923, Italian People's Party / Christian Democracy / Italian People's Party), L'Unità (est. 1924, Italian Communist Party / Democratic Party of the Left / Democrats of the Left / Democratic Party), L'Umanità (est. 1947, Italian Democratic Socialist Party), La Discussione (est. 1952, Christian Democracy), Secolo d'Italia (est. 1952, Italian Social Movement), Liberazione (est. 1991, Communist Refoundation Party), La Padania (est. 1997, Lega Nord) and Europa (est. 2003, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy / Democratic Party).
Countrywide edit
Listed according to circulation, updated to February 2024.[4]
Regional/local edit
Listed according to circulation, updated to February 2024.[4]
Sports edit
Listed according to circulation, updated to February 2024.[4]
| Newspaper | Circulation | Headquarters | Est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Gazzetta dello Sport | 141,530[19] | Milan | 1896 |
| Corriere dello Sport | 50,624[20] | Rome | 1924 |
| Tuttosport | 23,422[21] | Turin | 1945 |
Publishers edit
Some media companies publish several newspapers, ordered by cumulative circulation:
- RCS MediaGroup – Corriere della Sera, La Gazzetta dello Sport
- GEDI Gruppo Editoriale – La Repubblica, La Stampa, Il Secolo XIX, La Provincia Pavese
- Caltagirone Editore – Il Messaggero, Il Gazzettino, Il Mattino, Corriere Adriatico, Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia
- Editoriale Nazionale – Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno
- Gruppo Amodei – Corriere dello Sport, Tuttosport
- Nord Est Multimedia – Messaggero Veneto, Il Piccolo, Il Mattino di Padova, La Tribuna di Treviso, La Nuova Venezia, Corriere delle Alpi
- Antonio Angelucci – Il Giornale, Libero, Il Tempo
- Gruppo SAE – Il Tirreno, La Nuova Sardegna, Gazzetta di Modena, Gazzetta di Reggio, La Nuova Ferrara
- Gruppo Athesis – L'Arena, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Gazzetta di Mantova
- Società Iniziative Editoriali – L'Adige, Alto Adige
- Class Editori – Italia Oggi, MF Milano Finanza
- Romeo Editore – L'Unità, Il Riformista
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Pippa Norris (Fall 2000). "Chapter 4 The Decline of Newspapers?". A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Societies (PDF). New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
- ^ "European Publishing Monitor" (PDF). Turku School of Economics (Media Group). March 2007. Archived from the original (Report) on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ^ "ADS - Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa".
- ^ a b c d "ADS - Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa".
- ^ "Il Corriere della Sera raggiunge i 500 mila abbonati digitali". 14 December 2022.
- ^ a b https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e022b9-a1c7-4b8d-99cd-908cf515e309/23_FenzlStedtnitz_NewsWeChoose_InequalityDiscussionPaper.pdf
- ^ https://www.psa.ac.uk/sites/default/files/conference/papers/2017/Podemos_M5S.pdf
- ^ Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos (2007). "The Mediterranean or Polarized Pluralist Model Countries". In Terzis, G. (ed.). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol: Intellect Book. pp. 191–200.
- ^ Castaldi, Simone (6 October 2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781628468397.
- ^ Zamponi, Lorenzo (26 February 2018). Social Movements, Memory and Media: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements. Springer. ISBN 9783319685519.
- ^ "The Secret of Benedict XVI's Popularity. In Spite of Everything".
- ^ The newspaper started as Il Sole in 1865 and was merged with 24 Ore, started in 1933, in 1965.
- ^ "Il Sole 24 Ore".
- ^ "The Italian Media's Relation with Armenia and Azerbaijan". 11 May 2023.
- ^ "Where to get the news in Italy".
- ^ "Institutionalized Populism: The "Strange Case" of the Italian Five Star Movement - ECPS". 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Intimate Fusion: Media and Political Power in Silvio Berlusconi's Italy". 17 May 2013.
- ^ https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/imk/JOUR3421/v05/undervisningsmateriale/Italy&usg=AOvVaw0kzWsEcL0_GFEQsRHhxtsq&opi=89978449
- ^ 150,652 on Mondays.
- ^ 58,058 on Mondays.
- ^ 30,486 on Mondays.
Further reading edit
- Giuseppe Ottino (1875), La stampa periodica, il commercio dei libri e la tipografia in Italia (in Italian), Milan: G. Brigola, hdl:2027/umn.31951001486193y
- Nicola Bernardini, ed. (1890). Guida della stampa periodica italiana (in Italian). Lecce: R. Tipografia editrice salentina dei fratelli Spacciante.
- "Giornali e giornalisti", Almanacco Italiano (in Italian), Florence: R. Bemporad & figlio, 1896, pp. 431+
- Annuario della Stampa Italiana (in Italian)
- 1899 ed.
- 1921 ed.
- "Giornale e Giornalismo", Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian), 1933
- "Italy: the Press". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. p. 392+. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.