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 daily print newspapers in Italy were 107 in 1950, whereas there were 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 1,661,682 in January 2025, down from 2,292,549 for 57 newspapers in January 2020.[3][4] Corriere della Sera, based in Milan, has the largest circulation, above 200,000 copies, and more than 500,000 digital subscribers.[5] Corriere della Sera is distantly followed by La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, Avvenire and La Stampa. The circulation of some leading "opinion" newspapers, including Il Foglio and Domani, is not tracked by ADS.
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 May 2025.[4]
Regional/local
[edit]Listed according to circulation, updated to May 2025.[4]
Sports
[edit]Listed according to circulation, updated to May 2025.[4]
| Newspaper | Circulation | Headquarters | Est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Gazzetta dello Sport | 145,702[19] | Milan | 1896 |
| Corriere dello Sport | 37,594[20] | Rome | 1924 |
| Tuttosport | 18,383[21] | Turin | 1945 |
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, 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
- Finanziaria Tosinvest – 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 Editrice Santi Alessandro, Ambrogio, Bassiano – L'Eco di Bergamo, La Provincia
- Società Iniziative Editoriali – L'Adige, Alto Adige
- Class Editori – Italia Oggi, MF Milano Finanza
- Società Editoriale Siciliana – Gazzetta del Sud, Giornale di Sicilia
- Domenico Sanfilippo Editore – La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, La Sicilia
- Romeo Editore – L'Unità, Il Riformista
See also
[edit]- List of magazines in Italy
- Mass media in Italy
- Telecommunications in Italy
- List of Italian telephone companies
- Television in Italy
- List of television channels in Italy
- List of radio stations in Italy
- Internet in Italy
- Censorship in Italy
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 Fenzl, Michele; Stedtnitz, Christine (May 2023). "The News We Choose: Unfair Inequality and the Growing Success of Populist News" (PDF). Universität Zürich. URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series.
- ^ "Southern European populisms as counter-hegemonic discourses? Podemos and M5S in comparative perspective" (PDF). Political Studies Association.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Private ownership in the Italian media landscape — JOUR3421". University of Oslo. 6 March 2005. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016.
- ^ 143,515 on Mondays.
- ^ 40,920 on Mondays.
- ^ 19,905 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, 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.
