Il Foglio
A copy of Il Foglio in 2016
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Il Foglio Quotidiano Società Cooperativa
EditorClaudio Cerasa [it]
Founded30 January 1996
Political alignmentLiberalism • fiscal conservatism
LanguageItalian
HeadquartersVia del Tritone 132, Rome
Via Vittor Pisani 19, Milan
CirculationDaily: 25.000 (2015)
Overall: 47.000 (2015)
ISSN1128-6164
Websiteilfoglio.it

Il Foglio (English: "The Paper") is an Italian daily newspaper with circulation around 25.000 copies per day, with an overall spread of 47.000, as of 2015. It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara. Since 2015, it has been directed by Claudio Cerasa [it].[1]

History and profile

Il Foglio was founded in 1996 by Ferrara after he left as editor of the magazine Panorama.[2] The paper is headquartered in Rome.[3] The main editorial policy of Il Foglio (meaning in Italian "The Sheet", referencing the format from a single sheet of paper as used in 19th-century newspapers) is a summary of the most important news of the day with comment and analysis on them. Recently, the size of the paper has increased, with insert and extra pages incorporated especially on Saturday. Between March and April 2023, Il Foglio published one ChatGPT-generated article a day on their official website, hosting a special contest for their readers in the process.[4] The articles tackled themes like the possible replacement of human journalists with AI systems,[5] Elon Musk's administration of Twitter,[6] the Meloni government's immigration policy,[7] and the competition between chatbots and virtual assistants.[8]

Politics

Anglo-American conservatism can roughly be considered its closest political position. It features editorials inspired by American newspapers, especially The Wall Street Journal. Il Foglio can also be considered pro-free market in economics. A significant part of its journalists are members or were members of the Radical Party. This newspaper also hosts several articles from left-leaning and independent columnists. In 2004, Angelo Agostini [it] categorized it as an activist daily (quotidiano-attivista), alongside Libero on the political right and l'Unità on the political left, in contrast to the institution daily (quotidiano-istituzione) like Corriere della Sera and La Stampa, and the agenda daily (quotidiano-agenda) like La Repubblica.[9]

Ownership

In April 2006, Ferrara said that the newspaper ownership was shared by PBF S.r.l. at 38%, Sergio Zuncheddu [it] (Sardinian builder and owner of the largest daily newspaper of Sardinia, l'Unione Sarda, and of some regional television broadcasting companies, such as Videolina [it] and Tele Costa Smeralda [it]), at 20% to 25%, Denis Verdini (former national coordinator of The People of Freedom) at 15%, Ferrara himself at 10%, and Michele Colasanto [it] at 10%.[10]

Since 2016, the paper has been owned by Sorgente Group, a group operating in the field of real estate investments and finance and chaired by Valter Mainetti. In April 2016, it announced that it had bought 97,48% of the ownership.[11] In December 2016, Sorgente Group bought 100% of the ownership and is thus the only owner of the newspaper.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Foglio, Il nell'Enciclopedia Treccani". Treccani (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  2. ^ Smoltczyk, Alexander (28 November 2005). "The Halls of Power in Italy: Dining with Berlusconi's Brain". Der Spiegel. No. 48. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Communicating Europe: Italy Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  4. ^ "ChatGPT sul Foglio: per 30 giorni piccoli testi scritti dall'IA sul nostro giornale" [ChatGPT on Il Foglio: for 30 days, brief texts written by the AI on our newspaper]. Il Foglio (in Italian). 7 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  5. ^ Moretti, Marco (8 March 2023). "Articoli artificiali? No" [Artificial articles? No]. Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  6. ^ A.D.A. (9 March 2023). "Più umani, grazie" [Be more human, thanks]. Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Le colpe farlocche dellinvasione'" [The fake faults of the "invasion"]. Il Foglio (in Italian). 14 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Sfida per Siri e Alexa" [A challenge for Siri and Alexa]. Il Foglio (in Italian). 17 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  9. ^ Saitta, Eugénie (April 2006). "The Transformations of Traditional Mass Media Involvement in the Political and Electoral Process" (PDF). Nicosia, Cyprus: European Consortium for Political Research. pp. 5–6. Archived from the original (Conference Paper) on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2023. Angelo Agostini (2004) distinguishes three types of Italian daily newspapers: ... and [the third type] the activist daily ('quotidiano-attivista') such as Il Foglio, Libero or L'Unità. ... The third kind of daily newspapers is the most recent type, and has only appeared in recent years. It regularly organises mobilisation: from the struggle against immigration initiated by Libero, to the USA-day proposed by Il Foglio to support the United States after 11 September 2001, or the rounds (girotondi) organised by L'Unità to protest against war in Iraq.
  10. ^ Iovene, Bernardo (23 April 2006). "Il finanziamento quotidiano". Report (in Italian).
  11. ^ "Il Gruppo Sorgente sale al 97 per cento del Foglio, esce la Sator". Il Foglio. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016.
  12. ^ "A Sorgente il 30% della Gazzetta. Mainetti: 'Una nuova avventura'". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2023.

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