Il Giorno
Front page (Milan edition), 8 February 2009
TypeNational daily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Poligrafici Editoriale (since 1997)
Founder(s) • Cino Del Duca
 • Gaetano Baldacci
EditorGiuliano Molossi
Founded21 March 1956
Political alignmentConservatism
Centrism
LanguageItalian
HeadquartersMilan, Italy
Circulation69,000 (2008)
ISSN1124-2116
OCLC number759765507
Websiteilgiorno.it

Il Giorno is an Italian-language national daily newspaper, based in Milan, Italy; it has numerous local editions in Lombardy.

History and profile

Il Giorno was founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca on 21 March 1956,[1] with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge Corriere della Sera, also a daily newspaper published in Milan. Later, because of a financial crisis, Italian public administrator Enrico Mattei and the state-owned oil company Eni[2] bought part of the publishing company. The paper maintains a liberal political stance.[3]

In 1959, Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the newspaper's editor. One of the former contributors of the paper was Adolfo Battaglia.[4]

In 1997, Eni sold Il Giorno to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers (il Resto del Carlino and La Nazione) under the Quotidiano Nazionale network.

In 2000, Il Giorno switched from a broadsheet to a tabloid format.[5] The paper was published in tabloid format until 2003 when it adopted again broadsheet format.[5] In 2009, the paper began to publish a new sports supplement.

Circulation

The 1988 circulation of Il Giorno was 290,000 copies.[2] In 1992 it had a circulation of 170,000 copies.[1] Its circulation was 75,601 copies in 2004.[6] In 2008 the newspaper had a circulation of approximately 69,000 copies.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-74849-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b Peter Humphreys (1996). Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. Manchester University Press. p. 90. ISBN 9780719031977.
  3. ^ "Communicating Europe: Italy Manual" (PDF). European Stability Initiative. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Autore: Adolfo Battaglia". First Online (in Italian). Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Broadsheet / Tabloid Formats" (PDF). SFN Flash. 7 (1). 7 January 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2017.
  6. ^ "European Publishing Monitor. Italy" (PDF). Turku School of Economics and KEA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  7. ^ Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa.

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