Corriere della Sera
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daily newspaper
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, published in Milan
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It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers. Its main rivals are Rome
Rome
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's La Repubblica
La Repubblica
la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...
and Turin
Turin
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's La Stampa
La Stampa
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History
It was founded on Sunday, March 5, 1876, by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of Luigi AlbertiniLuigi Albertini
Luigi Albertini was an influential Italian journalist and politician.Albertini was an outspoken antifascist, even though at one time he did support the National Fascist Party in their opposition to the Left...
, the Corriere della Sera became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its importance and influence into the present century.
The newspaper's offices have been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as "the Via Solferino newspaper", for the name of the street where it is still located. As the name indicates, it was originally printed in the evening (sera).
The Italian novelist Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati-Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe.-Life:Buzzati was born at San Pellegrino,...
was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...
, Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy , the Cosmicomics collection of short stories , and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler .Lionised in Britain and the United States,...
, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
, Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career...
and Indro Montanelli
Indro Montanelli
Indro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome....
. The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to culture
Culture
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, in the Italian tradition) contained a main article, named elzeviro, which has been signed by all the editors and the major novelists, poets and journalists of the country.
In the 1960s the Corriere became part of the Rizzoli
RCS MediaGroup
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group, listed in the Italian stock exchange. Its main shareholders are Mediobanca
Mediobanca
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, the Fiat
Fiat
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group and some of the biggest industrial and financial groups in Italy. The newspaper has however not endorsed Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...
's government on several issues, such as the war in Iraq
2003 invasion of Iraq
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In 1981 the newspaper was involved in the P2
Propaganda Due
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scandal; the secret Italian Freemason
Freemasonry
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lodge had the newspaper's editor Franco Di Bella and the former owner Angelo Rizzoli
Angelo Rizzoli
Angelo Rizzoli was an Italian publisher and film producer.- Early life :Orphaned at a young age and raised in poverty, Rizzoli rose to prosperity...
on its member lists.
People (past and present)
Editors- Paolo MieliPaolo MieliPaolo Mieli is an Italian journalist who has been director of Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera.Born in Milan, Mieli debuted as journalist at 18 for L'Espresso, where he remained for some 20 years. As a member of Potere Operaio he initially adhered to far-left positions...
(Editor) - Paolo Ermini (Vice-Editor)
- Magdi AllamMagdi AllamMagdi Cristiano Allam , is an Egyptian-born Italian journalist and political leader, noted for his criticism of Islamic Extremism, his defence of Judeo-Christian roots of Europe and the West, and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world...
(Vice-Editor "ad personam") - Pierluigi Battista (Deputy Editor)
- Dario Di Vico (Deputy Editor)
- Luciano FontanaLuciano FontanaLuciano Fontana is an Italian ski mountaineer and cross-country skier.- Selected results :* 1991:** 1st, Italian Cross-Country Skiing Championship 15km * 2000:...
(Deputy Editor) - Lando FerrettiLando FerrettiLando Ferretti was an Italian journalist, politician and sports administrator.-Journalism:...
(former editor)
Columnist & Journalists
- Francesco AlberoniFrancesco Alberoni|right|150px|Franesco AlberoniFrancesco Alberoni is an Italian Journalist, and professor in Sociology...
(Columnist) - Enzo BiagiEnzo BiagiEnzo Biagi was an Italian journalist and writer.-Biography:Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the...
(Columnist) - Ernesto Galli della Loggia (Columnist)
- Francesco GiavazziFrancesco GiavazziFrancesco Giavazzi is an Italian economist who is currently Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, and a regular visiting professor at MIT.-Biography:...
(Columnist) - Indro MontanelliIndro MontanelliIndro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome....
( Columnist and Journalist) - Angelo Panebianco (Columnist)
- Mario PappagalloMario PappagalloMario Pappagallo is an Italian journalist and essayist. He lives in Milan, Italy.- Biography :After studying Medicine at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and Biological Sciences at the University of Urbino, he got a master's degree in medical and scientific Journalism from the University of...
(Journalist) - Sergio Romano (Columnist)
- Giovanni SartoriGiovanni SartoriGiovanni Sartori is an Italian political scientist specialized in the study of democracy and comparative politics.-Biography:Born in Florence in 1924. Sartori began his academic career as a lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy...
(Columnist) - Beppe SevergniniBeppe SevergniniGiuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini, OBE, is an Italian journalist, writer and columnist.-Biography:Born the 26 December 1956 in Crema, Severgnini graduated in law at the University of Pavia....
(Journalist) - Franco Venturini (Columnist)
See also
- Corriere dei PiccoliCorriere dei PiccoliThe Corriere dei Piccoli , later renamed Corriere dei Ragazzi and nicknamed Corrierino , was a weekly magazine for children published in Italy from 1908 to 1995...
, originally a children's supplement of the Corriere della Sera. - List of non-English newspapers with English language subsections
External links
- September/October, November and December 1969 historical front pages.