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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner | RCS MediaGroup |
| Founder | Eugenio Torelli Viollier |
| Managing editor, design | Luciano Fontana [it] |
| Founded | 5 March 1876; 149 years ago (1876-03-05) |
| Political alignment | Liberalism Centrism Formerly: Fascism (1925–1945) Conservatism Anti-communism |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Milan, Italy |
| Country | Italy |
| Circulation | 206,874 (print, 2018) 170,000 (digital, 2019) |
| Sister newspapers | La Gazzetta dello Sport |
| ISSN | 1120-4982 |
| Website | www |
Corriere della Sera (Italian:[korˈrjɛːredellaˈseːra];lit. 'Evening Courier') is an Italiandaily newspaper published inMilan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023.[1][2] First published on 5 March 1876,Corriere della Sera is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Itsmasthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-ownerLuigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent ofsocialism,clericalism, andGiovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time asprime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to theItalian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925.[3][4]
A representative of themoderate bourgeoisie,[5]Corriere della Sera has always been generally consideredcentre-right-leaning, hosting in its columnsliberal and democratic Catholic views. In the 21st century, its main competitors areRome'sla Repubblica andTurin'sLa Stampa.[6] Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization process,Corriere della Sera andLa Stampa were not real national daily newspapers, as their geographical area of circulation was mostly limited toLombardy forCorriere della Sera andPiedmont forLa Stampa; 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.[7]Corriere della Sera is considered the Italian nationalnewspaper of record.[8][9][10]Corriere della Sera is the "major daily" and one of the main national newspapers in Italy, alongsidela Repubblica,La Stampa,Il Sole 24 Ore, andIl Messaggero.[11]
Corriere della Sera was first published on Sunday, 5 March 1876,[12] byEugenio Torelli Viollier [it].[13] In 1899, the paper began to offer a weekly illustrated supplement,La Domenica del Corriere ("Sunday of the Courier").[14] In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction ofLuigi Albertini,Corriere della Sera became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its importance and influence into the present century.[13] It wasCorriere della Sera that introducedcomics in Italy in 1908 through asupplement for children, namelyCorriere dei Piccoli ("Courier of the Little Ones").[15]
The newspaper's headquarters has been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as "the Via Solferino newspaper", after the street where it is still located. As the name indicates, it was originally anevening paper. During theFascist regime in Italy,Corriere della Sera funded theMussolini Prize, which was awarded to the writersAda Negri andEmilio Cecchi, among the others.[16] Mario Borsa, amilitant anti-fascist, was appointed theeditor-in-chief ofCorriere della Sera in May 1945;[17] the next year, the paper was relaunched asIl Nuovo Corriere della Sera, a name that it kept until 1959, to distance itself from its support of Fascism.[18] Borsa was fired because of his political leanings in August 1946 and was replaced by Guglielmo Emanuel, aright-wing journalist.[17] Emanuel served in the post until 1952.[17]
In the 1950s,Corriere della Sera was the organ of theconservative establishment in Italy and was stronglyanti-communist and pro-NATO.[17] The paper was functional in shaping the views of the Italian upper and middle classes during this period.[17] The owners of theCorriere della Sera, the Crespi family,[19] sold a share to theRCS MediaGroup in the 1960s and was listed in theItalian stock exchange. Its main shareholders wereMediobanca, theFiat group, and some of the biggest industrial and financial groups in Italy. In 1974, the RCS Media moved on to control the majority of the paper.[20][21]
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During the early 1980s, Alberto Cavallari was the editor-in-chief of the paper.[19] In 1981, the newspaper was laterally involved in thePropaganda Due scandal when it was discovered that the secretFreemason lodge had the newspaper's editor Franco Di Bella and the former ownerAngelo Rizzoli on its member lists. In September 1987, the paper launched the weekly magazine supplementSette, which is the first in its category in Italy.[22][23] From 1987 to 1992, the editor-in-chief ofCorriere della Sera was Ugo Stille.[24]
The 1988 circulation ofCorriere della Sera was 715,000 copies, making it the second most read newspaper in Italy.[25] The paper started its Saturday supplement,IO Donna, in 1996.[26] In 1997,Corriere della Sera was the best-selling Italian newspaper with a circulation of 687,000 copies.[27]
Corriere della Sera had a circulation of 715,000 copies in 2001.[28] In 2002, it fell to 681,000 copies.[20] In 2003, its then editor Ferruccio de Bortoli resigned from the post.[12] The journalists and opposition politicians stated that the resignation was due to the paper's criticism ofSilvio Berlusconi.[12]
In 2004,Corriere della Sera launched an online English section focusing on Italian current affairs and culture. That same year, it was the best-selling newspaper in Italy with a circulation of 677,542 copies.[29] In May 2007, the paper's website was listed 15th among the top 30 brands of the month in Italy, with over 4 million unique visitors, and behind onlyla Repubblica among daily newspapers;[30] during the same month, the paper had sold about 594,000 copies compared to the circa 566,000 copies ofla Repubblica.[31] Its circulation in December 2007 was 662,253 copies;[12] excluding digital copies, its circulation in December 2013 was 99,145 copies.[32] By 2015, the paper had the country's highest circulation at about 308,000 copies.[5] One of the most visited Italian-language news websites, attracting over 2.4 million readers every day in July 2019,[33] the online version of the paper was the thirteenth most visited website in the country in 2011.[34]
In 2004,Angelo Agostini [it] categorizedCorriere della Sera as an institution daily (quotidiano-istituzione), alongsideLa Stampa, in contrast to the agenda daily (quotidiano-agenda) likela Repubblica, and the activist daily (quotidiano-attivista) likeIl Foglio,Libero, andl'Unità.[35] On 24 September 2014,Corriere della Sera changed itsbroadsheet format to theBerliner format.[36] On 7 March 2020, during theCOVID-19 pandemic in Italy,Corriere della Sera leaked a draft decree to put into lockdown several northern provinces particularly affected by the virus. The leaked news sparked a panic exodus to the south, and the threat of further contagion led toCOVID-19 lockdowns in Italy.[37]
Terza pagina ("Third Page"), a one page-survey dedicated to culture, used to feature the main article "Elzeviro" (named after theHouse of Elzevir font originally used), which over the years published contributions from all the editors, as well as major novelists, poets, and journalists. On Monday,Corriere della Sera is published alongsideL'Economia ("The Economy"), a weekly finance and business magazine. On Thursday, it is published withSette ("Seven"), a current events magazine. On Sunday, it is published along withla Lettura ("The Reading"), a weekly literary supplement.
The Italian novelistDino Buzzati was a journalist at theCorriere della Sera. Other notable contributors includeAdolfo Battaglia,[38]Eugenio Montale,Curzio Malaparte,Gabriele D'Annunzio,Enzo Bettiza,Italo Calvino,Alberto Moravia,Amos Oz,Pier Paolo Pasolini,Guido Piovene,Giovanni Spadolini,Oriana Fallaci,Alessandra Farkas,Lando Ferretti,Brunella Gasperini,Enzo Biagi,Indro Montanelli,Giovanni Sartori,Paolo Brera,Francesco Alberoni,Tracy Chevalier,Goffredo Parise,Sergio Romano,Sandro Paternostro,Arturo Quintavalle,Roberto Gervaso,Alan Friedman,Tommaso Landolfi,Alberto Ronchey,Maria Grazia Cutuli,Camilla Cederna, Marida Lombardo Pijola, andPaolo Mieli.
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Sono, invece, La Repubblica, con 2,9 milioni di utenti unici e oltre 10.000 pagine viste nel giorno medio, Corriere della Sera, con 2,4 milioni di utenti unici e 7.600 pagine viste, e TgCom24, con 2,2 milioni di utenti unici e 8.100 pagine viste, i siti più visitati.
According to Alexa, among the top 20 websites consulted in Italy, those for news are followed by portals, community sites and providers, and social networks. The website of the daily newspaperLa Repubblica comes 10th (ahead of Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, YouTube, MSN, and others); Corriere.it, belonging to the dailyCorriere della Sera, comes 13th, and Gazzetta.it, the site of the sports dailyLa Gazzetta dello Sport, 18th. More than half of the users, 52.6 percent, who consult the internet mainly for news still obtain information by going to the websites of the traditional news publishers:La Repubblica,Corriere della Sera, andGazzetta dello Sport. These are, in fact, the most popular newspapers in Italy.
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