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| Front page (Trieste edition), 11 October 2008 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso |
| Editor | Paolo Possamai |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Political alignment | Progressivism |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Trieste, Italy |
| Circulation | 28,800 (2014) |
| Website | ilpiccolo |
Il Piccolo is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. Its name derives from the paper's original small format.
Il Piccolo was founded by Teodoro Mayer in 1881. [1] He was also the owner and editor-in-chief of the paper. [1] Mayer and other people who were instrumental in the establishment of the paper were right-wing pro-Italians. [1] [2] Mayer supported the idea that Trieste was part of Italy. [1] One of its contributors was Carolina Luzzatto who was a supporter of this view. [3]
Il Piccolo ceased publication at the beginning of World War I and was relaunched in 1919. [1] Following the beginning of the Fascist rule in Italy the paper declared its adherence to the Fascist ideology in 1923. [4] Until the end of World War II the paper was edited by those with fascist political leaning. [2]
Il Piccolo is based in Trieste [5] and it is published by Finegil Editoriale SPA [6] which has been a subsidiary of Gruppo Espresso since 1998. [7] Local editions for the towns of Monfalcone and Gorizia and for the region of Istria (Croatia) are also printed. It has a progressive political stance. [8]
The circulation of Il Piccolo was 40,231 copies in 2008. [9] The paper had a circulation of 31,302 copies in 2013. [10] The Espresso Group reported that the circulation of the paper was 28,800 copies in 2014. [5]