List of newspapers in Italy

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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 76 are listed in this article: 22 countrywide newspapers (including some "opinion" or "political" newspapers with very limited circulation, that are available only in Rome and few other places), 51 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

Listed according to circulation, updated to October 2024.[4]

Newspaper Circulation Headquarters Est. Orientation
Corriere della Sera 227,267 Milan 1876 Liberalism[6][7]
La Repubblica 141,286 Rome 1976 Progressivism[8][9][10][11]
Il Sole 24 Ore 118,280 Milan 1865[12] Liberalism[13]
Avvenire 105,972 Milan 1968 Christian democracy
La Stampa 74,647 Turin 1867 Progressivism[14]
Il Fatto Quotidiano 53,541 Rome 2009 Left-wing populism[6][15][16]
Il Giornale 27,337 Milan 1974 Liberal conservatism[17][18]
La Verità 26,617 Milan 2016 Right-wing populism
Libero 19,998 Milan 2000 Liberal conservatism
Italia Oggi 15,028 Milan 1991 Liberal conservatism
Il manifesto 13,263 Rome 1969 Socialism
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

Listed according to circulation, updated to October 2024.[4]

Newspaper Circulation Headquarters Est. Area
Il Messaggero 61,466 Rome 1878 Lazio, Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo
Il Resto del Carlino 50,896 Bologna 1885 Emilia-Romagna, Marche, southern Veneto
Il Gazzettino 42,951 Venice 1887 Veneto, western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
La Nazione 33,550 Florence 1859 Tuscany, Umbria, eastern Liguria
Dolomiten 32,054 Bolzano 1882 South Tyrol
L'Eco di Bergamo 27,473 Bergamo 1880 Province of Bergamo (Lombardy)
L'Unione Sarda 25,043 Cagliari 1889 Sardinia
Messaggero Veneto 24,126 Udine 1946 western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Il Mattino 23,754 Naples 1892 Campania
Giornale di Brescia 21,348 Brescia 1945 Province of Brescia (Lombardy)
Il Secolo XIX 21,127 Genoa 1886 Liguria, southern Piedmont
L'Adige 20,948 Trento 1945 South Tyrol
Gazzetta di Parma 20,890 Parma 1735 Province of Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
La Nuova Sardegna 18,848 Sassari 1891 Sardinia
L'Arena 17,181 Verona 1866 Province of Verona (Veneto)
Il Tirreno 16,683 Livorno 1877 Tuscany
Il Giornale di Vicenza 16,460 Vicenza 1915 Province of Vicenza (Veneto)
Il Giorno 14,732 Milan 1956 Lombardy
Libertà 13,459 Piacenza 1883 Province of Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna)
La Provincia 12,866 Como 1892 northern Lombardy
Il Piccolo 12,372 Trieste 1881 eastern Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Quotidiano di Sicilia 12,347 Catania 1979 Sicily
Gazzetta di Mantova 10,721 Mantua 1664 Province of Mantua (Lombardy)
Il Mattino di Padova 10,004 Padua 1978 Province of Padua (Veneto)
La Provincia di Cremona 9,731 Cremona 1947 Province of Cremona (Lombardy)
Gazzetta del Sud 8,626 Messina 1952 north-western Sicily, Calabria
Corriere Adriatico 8,211 Ancona 1860 Marche
Il Tempo 7,606 Rome 1944 Lazio, Umbria
Alto Adige 7,534 Bolzano 1945 South Tyrol
La Sicilia 7,237 Catania 1945 Sicily
Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia 6,947 Lecce 1979 southern Apulia
Il Centro 6,641 Pescara 1986 Abruzzo
La Provincia Pavese 6,552 Pavia 1879 Province of Pavia (Lombardy)
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno 6,326 Bari 1887 Apulia
La Tribuna di Treviso 6,183 Treviso 1978 Province of Treviso (Veneto)
Gazzetta di Modena 5,483 Modena 1859 Province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
Gazzetta di Reggio 5,279 Reggio Emilia 1860 Province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna)
Giornale di Sicilia 5,219 Palermo 1860 Sicily
La Nuova Venezia 4,493 Venice 1978 Province of Venice (Veneto)
Corriere dell'Umbria 4,244 Perugia 1983 Umbria
La Nuova Ferrara 3,942 Ferrara 1989 Province of Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
Corriere delle Alpi 3,773 Belluno 1978 Province of Belluno (Veneto)
L'Edicola 3,637 Bari 2021 Apulia, Basilicata
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

Sports

Listed according to circulation, updated to October 2024.[4]

Newspaper Circulation Headquarters Est.
La Gazzetta dello Sport 130,688[19] Milan 1896
Corriere dello Sport 33,605[20] Rome 1924
Tuttosport 18,244[21] Turin 1945

Publishers

Some media companies publish several newspapers, ordered by cumulative circulation:

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "ADS - Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa".
  4. ^ a b c d "ADS - Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa".
  5. ^ "Il Corriere della Sera raggiunge i 500 mila abbonati digitali". 14 December 2022.
  6. ^ a b https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e022b9-a1c7-4b8d-99cd-908cf515e309/23_FenzlStedtnitz_NewsWeChoose_InequalityDiscussionPaper.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ https://www.psa.ac.uk/sites/default/files/conference/papers/2017/Podemos_M5S.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Castaldi, Simone (6 October 2010). Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781628468397.
  10. ^ Zamponi, Lorenzo (26 February 2018). Social Movements, Memory and Media: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements. Springer. ISBN 9783319685519.
  11. ^ "The Secret of Benedict XVI's Popularity. In Spite of Everything".
  12. ^ The newspaper started as Il Sole in 1865 and was merged with 24 Ore, started in 1933, in 1965.
  13. ^ "Il Sole 24 Ore".
  14. ^ "The Italian Media's Relation with Armenia and Azerbaijan". 11 May 2023.
  15. ^ "Where to get the news in Italy".
  16. ^ "Institutionalized Populism: The "Strange Case" of the Italian Five Star Movement - ECPS". 8 June 2021.
  17. ^ "Intimate Fusion: Media and Political Power in Silvio Berlusconi's Italy". 17 May 2013.
  18. ^ https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/imk/JOUR3421/v05/undervisningsmateriale/Italy&usg=AOvVaw0kzWsEcL0_GFEQsRHhxtsq&opi=89978449 [bare URL]
  19. ^ 138,746 on Mondays.
  20. ^ 39,969 on Mondays.
  21. ^ 25,789 on Mondays.

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