Oggi (magazine)

History and profile

Oggi was established in Milan in June 1939.{{cite journal|author1=Antonio Ciaglia|author2=Marco Mazzoni|title=Pop-politics in times of crisis: The Italian tabloid press during Mario Monti's government|journal=European Journal of Communication|year=2014|volume=29

The magazine was restarted in July 1945.{{cite book|author1=David Forgacs|author2=Stephen Gundle|title=Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rIZzodaZCYC&pg=PA111|year=2007|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-21948-0

Oggi is owned by the RCS media group and is published weekly by RCS Periodici, a subsidiary of the group.

At the beginning of the 1950s Oggi had a monarchist political stance{{cite journal|author=Mitchell V. Charnley

Circulation

Oggi was one of the most read magazines in Italy with a circulation of 760,000 copies in the late 1940s. The magazine sold 450,000–500,000 copies in the period 1952–1953. In the mid-1960s the circulation of the magazine was 699,000 copies.{{cite journal|author=Laura Ciglioni|title=Italian Public Opinion in the Atomic Age: Mass-market Magazines Facing Nuclear Issues (1963–1967)|year=2017

The weekly had a circulation of 550,740 copies in 1984. It rose to 728,533 copies between September 1993 and August 1994.

In 2001 Oggi had a circulation of 748,000 copies.{{cite web|title=Top 50 General Interest magazines worldwide (by circulation) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411085843/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|archive-date=11 April 2015|url-status=dead}} The 2007 circulation of the magazine was 623,679 copies.{{cite web|author=Anne Austin|display-authors=etal|title=Western Europe Market and Media Fact|access-date=10 April 2015|year=2008

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