La Stampa

La Stampa
(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin. Distributed in Italy and other European nations, it is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization process, and were not real national daily newspapers, as their geographical area of circulation was mostly limited to Piedmont for and Lombardy for ; thus, both papers shared a readership that was linked to its place of residence and its social class, mostly from the industrialist class and financial circles. Alongside and , it is one of the main national newspapers in Italy.
History and profile
The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867, with the name Gazzetta Piemontese. In 1895, the newspaper was bought and by then edited by Alfredo Frassati (father of Pier Giorgio Frassati), who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticizing the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli. The financier Riccardo Gualino also took a share. The paper is now owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, and has a centrist stance. The former contributors of include Italian novelist Alberto Moravia. In 2004, categorized as an institution daily, alongside , in contrast to the agenda daily like , and the activist daily like and .
, based in Turin, was published in broadsheet format, until November 2006, when the paper began to be published in the Berliner format. It launched a website in 1999. also launched a project, called Vatican Insider, run by the daily newspaper and has among its staff several Vatican affairs analysts. Since 26 May 2006, it has published the monthly magazine Specchio+. From 26 January 1996 to 7 April 2006, it was called Specchio, which was published as a weekly supplement, a general interest magazine. In September 2012, moved to its new headquarters in Turin, leaving its historical editorial building. Mario Calabresi was the editor-in-chief of the daily.
On 9 April 2013, an explosive device was sent by an insurrectionary anarchist group, the Informal Anarchist Federation, to the offices of ; it did not detonate. In June 2017, during the celebration for its 150 years of activity, hosted the international conference "The Future of Newspaper", where many great actors of the news industry discussed about the future prospects for the news agencies. Among them John Elkann (editor of ), Jeff Bezos from The Washington Post, Louis Dreyfus CEO of Le Monde, and Mark Thompson CEO of The New York Times. In April 2020, Maurizio Molinari was appointed as new editor of and was replaced by Massimo Giannini (former journalist of and Radio Capital). Under his guide, moved to a mild centre-left position.
Circulation
The 1988 circulation of was 560,000 copies. In 1997, the paper had a circulation of 376,493 copies. Its circulation was 399,000 copies in 2000, and 409,000 copies in 2001. The circulation of the paper was 330,000 copies in 2003, and 345,060 copies in 2004. Its 2007 circulation was 314,000 copies. In 2012, the circulation of the paper was 256,203 copies.
Contributors
Editors
Massimo Giannini (editor)
Massimo Gramellini (vice-editor)
Roberto Bellato (vice-editor)
Umberto La Rocca (vice-editor)
Federico Geremicca (vice-editor, Rome)
Columnists and journalists
Massimo Gramellini (columnist)
Barbara Spinelli (columnist)
Mario Deaglio (columnist)
Lucia Annunziata (columnist)
Guido Ceronetti (columnist)
Mina (columnist)
Maurizio Molinari (journalist)
Stefania Miretti (columnist)
Roberto Beccantini (columnist)
Altiero Scicchitano (columnist)
Fiamma Nirenstein (columnist)
Former journalists
Giovanni Arpino
Adolfo Battaglia
Enzo Bettiza
Norberto Bobbio
Antonio Carluccio
Carlo Fruttero
Franco Lucentini
Lorenzo Soria
See also
Mass media in Italy
References
Further reading
Merrill, John C.; Fisher, Harold A. (1980). The World's Great Dailies: Profiles of Fifty Newspapers. pp. 104–110.
External links
Radio Nostalgia — La Stampa-owned local radio station
Archivio La Stampa — historical archives of ]
La Stampa Sportiva — paper archive
1867 establishments in Italy
Daily newspapers published in Italy
Fiat
Italian-language newspapers
Italian news websites
Liberal media
Newspapers published in Turin
Newspapers established in 1867