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Il Giorno (newspaper)

Italian newspaper

Summary

Italian newspaper

Field	Value
name	Il Giorno
logo	Logo Il Giorno.png
image	Frontpage Il Giorno.jpg
image_size	200px
caption	Front page (Milan edition), 8 February 2009
type	Daily newspaper
format	Broadsheet
owners	Poligrafici Editoriale (since 1997)
founder	Cino Del Duca
Gaetano Baldacci
editor	Giuliano Molossi
founded	21 March 1956
political_position	Conservatism
Centrism
language	Italian
headquarters	Milan, Italy
circulation	69,000 (2008)
ISSN	1124-2116
oclc	759765507
website	ilgiorno.it

Gaetano Baldacci Centrism

Il Giorno is a daily newspaper based in the city of 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, 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{{cite book|author=Peter Humphreys|title=Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe|date=1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|page=90

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.{{cite news|title=Autore: Adolfo Battaglia|work=First Online

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.{{cite journal|title=Broadsheet / Tabloid Formats|journal=SFN Flash|date=7 January 2004|volume=7

Circulation

The 1988 circulation of Il Giorno was 290,000 copies. Its circulation was 75,601 copies in 2004. In 2008 the newspaper had a circulation of approximately 69,000 copies.

References

(19 May 2008). "Communicating Europe: Italy Manual". European Stability Initiative.
(2005). "Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture". Routledge.
"European Publishing Monitor. Italy". Turku School of Economics and KEA.
[http://www.adsnotizie.it/certif/certificati_2008.xls Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008] {{webarchive. link. (22 July 2011 Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa.)

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