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 April 2024.[4]
Newspaper
Circulation
Headquarters
Est.
Orientation
Corriere della Sera
227,507
Milan
1876
Liberalism [6] [7]
La Repubblica
146,789
Rome
1976
Progressivism [8] [9] [10] [11]
Il Sole 24 Ore
120,369
Milan
1865[12]
Liberalism [13]
Avvenire
99,805
Milan
1968
Christian democracy
La Stampa
78,817
Turin
1867
Progressivism [14]
Il Fatto Quotidiano
52,131
Rome
2009
Left-wing populism [6] [15] [16]
Il Giornale
27,599
Milan
1974
Liberal conservatism [17] [18]
La Verità
27,196
Milan
2016
Right-wing populism
Libero
19,791
Milan
2000
Liberal conservatism
Il manifesto
13473
Rome
1969
Socialism
Italia Oggi
11,651
Milan
1991
Liberal conservatism
L'Unità
n.a.
Rome
1924
Social democracy
La Discussione
n.a.
Rome
1952
Christian democracy
MF Milano Finanza
n.a.
Milan
1989
Liberal conservatism
Il Foglio
n.a.
Rome
1996
Liberalism
L'Opinione delle Libertà
n.a.
Rome
1996
Liberalism
Il Riformista
n.a.
Rome
2002
Liberalism
La Notizia
n.a.
Rome
2013
Populism
Il Dubbio
n.a.
Rome
2016
Liberalism
Domani
n.a.
Rome
2020
Progressivism
La Ragione
n.a.
Rome
2021
Liberalism
L'Identità
n.a.
Rome
2022
Populism
Regional/local [ edit ]
Listed according to circulation , updated to April 2024.[4]
Newspaper
Circulation
Headquarters
Est.
Area
Il Messaggero
62,466
Rome
1878
Lazio , Marche , Umbria , Abruzzo
Il Resto del Carlino
56,464
Bologna
1885
Emilia-Romagna , Marche , southern Veneto
Il Gazzettino
43,661
Venice
1887
Veneto , western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
La Nazione
36,468
Florence
1859
Tuscany , Umbria , eastern Liguria
Dolomiten
31,762
Bolzano
1882
South Tyrol
L'Eco di Bergamo
28,770
Bergamo
1880
Province of Bergamo (Lombardy )
L'Unione Sarda
26,284
Cagliari
1889
Sardinia
Messaggero Veneto
26,043
Udine
1946
western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Il Mattino
23,966
Naples
1892
Campania
Il Secolo XIX
21,964
Genoa
1886
Liguria , southern Piedmont
Giornale di Brescia
21,906
Brescia
1945
Province of Brescia (Lombardy )
Gazzetta di Parma
21,207
Parma
1735
Province of Parma (Emilia-Romagna )
La Nuova Sardegna
19,529
Sassari
1891
Sardinia
L'Adige
18,787
Trento
1945
South Tyrol
L'Arena
18,644
Verona
1866
Province of Verona (Veneto )
Il Tirreno
17,911
Livorno
1877
Tuscany
Il Giornale di Vicenza
17,529
Vicenza
1915
Province of Vicenza (Veneto )
Il Giorno
17,202
Milan
1956
Lombardy
Libertà
13,827
Piacenza
1883
Province of Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna )
La Provincia
13,207
Como
1892
northern Lombardy
Il Piccolo
12,959
Trieste
1881
eastern Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Gazzetta di Mantova
11,634
Mantua
1664
Province of Mantua (Lombardy )
Il Mattino di Padova
10,378
Padua
1978
Province of Padua (Veneto )
Quotidiano di Sicilia
10,164
Catania
1979
Sicily
La Provincia di Cremona
9,837
Cremona
1947
Province of Cremona (Lombardy )
Gazzetta del Sud
9,143
Messina
1952
north-western Sicily , Calabria
Corriere Adriatico
8,139
Ancona
1860
Marche
La Sicilia
7,633
Catania
1945
Sicily
Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia
7,488
Lecce
1979
southern Apulia
Alto Adige
7,367
Bolzano
1945
South Tyrol
Il Tempo
7,260
Rome
1944
Lazio , Umbria
Il Centro
7,000
Pescara
1986
Abruzzo
La Provincia Pavese
6,757
Pavia
1879
Province of Pavia (Lombardy )
La Tribuna di Treviso
6,453
Treviso
1978
Province of Treviso (Veneto )
Giornale di Sicilia
6,240
Palermo
1860
Sicily
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
6,045
Bari
1887
Apulia
Gazzetta di Modena
5,500
Modena
1859
Province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna )
Gazzetta di Reggio
5,384
Reggio Emilia
1860
Province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna )
La Nuova Venezia
4,595
Venice
1978
Province of Venice (Veneto )
Corriere dell'Umbria
4,258
Perugia
1983
Umbria
La Nuova Ferrara
4,066
Ferrara
1989
Province of Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna )
Corriere delle Alpi
3,805
Belluno
1978
Province of Belluno (Veneto )
Editoriale Oggi
n.a.
Frosinone
1988
Lazio
Trentino
n.a.
Trento
1945
Trentino
Il T
n.a.
Trento
2022
Trentino
Roma
n.a.
Naples
1862
Campania
Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung
n.a.
Bolzano
1996
South Tyrol
Il Quotidiano del Sud
n.a.
Castrolibero
1995
Calabria , Basilicata , Campania
La Voce di Rovigo
n.a.
Rovigo
2004
Province of Rovigo (Veneto )
Primorski dnevnik
n.a.
Trieste
1945
Slovene minority in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Listed according to circulation , updated to April 2024.[4]
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
^ 146,818 on Mondays.
^ 46,109 on Mondays.
^ 28,876 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 [it ] , 1896, pp. 431+
Annuario della Stampa Italiana (in Italian)
"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 .
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