List of newspapers in Italy

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This is a list of newspapers in Italy, ordered according to category/scope and circulation.

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The number of daily print newspapers in Italy was 107 in 1950, whereas it was 78 in 1965. [1] It has further declined since and 74 are listed in this article: 21 countrywide newspapers (including some "opinion" or "political" newspapers with very limited circulation, that are available only in Rome and few other places), 50 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 1,755,092 in January 2024, down from 2,292,549 for 57 newspapers in January 2020. [3] [4] Corriere della Sera , based in Milan, has the largest circulation — more than 200,000 on average —, and has more than 500,000 digital subscribers. [5]

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

Listed according to circulation, updated to June 2024. [4]

NewspaperCirculationHeadquartersEst.Orientation
Corriere della Sera 232,149 Milan 1876 Liberalism [6] [7]
La Repubblica 149,292 Rome 1976 Progressivism [8] [9] [10] [11]
Il Sole 24 Ore 117,842Milan1865 [12] Liberalism [13]
Avvenire 97,563Milan1968 Christian democracy
La Stampa 78,615 Turin 1867 Progressivism [14]
Il Fatto Quotidiano 53,116Rome2009 Left-wing populism [6] [15] [16]
Il Giornale 28,253Milan1974 Liberal conservatism [17] [18]
La Verità 27,472Milan2016 Right-wing populism
Libero 20,622Milan2000 Liberal conservatism
Il manifesto 14,558Rome1969 Socialism
Italia Oggi 13,695Milan1991 Liberal conservatism
L'Unità n.a.Rome1924 Social democracy
La Discussione n.a.Rome1952 Christian democracy
MF Milano Finanza n.a.Milan1989 Liberal conservatism
Il Foglio n.a.Rome1996 Liberalism
L'Opinione delle Libertà n.a.Rome1996 Liberalism
Il Riformista n.a.Rome2002 Liberalism
La Notizia n.a.Rome2013 Populism
Il Dubbio n.a.Rome2016 Liberalism
Domani n.a.Rome2020 Progressivism
La Ragione n.a.Rome2021 Liberalism
L'Identità n.a.Rome2022 Populism

Regional/local

Listed according to circulation, updated to June 2024. [4]

NewspaperCirculationHeadquartersEst.Area
Il Messaggero 59,366Rome1878 Lazio, Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo
Il Resto del Carlino 55,341 Bologna 1885 Emilia-Romagna, Marche, southern Veneto
Il Gazzettino 42,575 Venice 1887 Veneto, western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
La Nazione 36,204 Florence 1859 Tuscany, Umbria, eastern Liguria
Dolomiten 31,470 Bolzano 1882 South Tyrol
L'Eco di Bergamo 28,034 Bergamo 1880 Province of Bergamo (Lombardy)
L'Unione Sarda 26,496 Cagliari 1889 Sardinia
Messaggero Veneto 26,007 Udine 1946western Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Il Mattino 24,097 Naples 1892 Campania
Il Secolo XIX 22,289 Genoa 1886 Liguria, southern Piedmont
Giornale di Brescia 21,525 Brescia 1945 Province of Brescia (Lombardy)
L'Adige 20,561 Trento 1945 South Tyrol
Gazzetta di Parma 20,391 Parma 1735 Province of Parma (Emilia-Romagna)
La Nuova Sardegna 18,847 Sassari 1891 Sardinia
Il Tirreno 18,907 Livorno 1877 Tuscany
L'Arena 17,705 Verona 1866 Province of Verona (Veneto)
Il Giornale di Vicenza 17,042 Vicenza 1915 Province of Vicenza (Veneto)
Il Giorno 15,676Milan1956 Lombardy
Libertà 13,722 Piacenza 1883 Province of Piacenza (Emilia-Romagna)
La Provincia 13,117 Como 1892northern Lombardy
Il Piccolo 13,075 Trieste 1881eastern Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Gazzetta di Mantova 11,020 Mantua 1664 Province of Mantua (Lombardy)
Il Mattino di Padova 10,586 Padua 1978 Province of Padua (Veneto)
Quotidiano di Sicilia 10,103 Catania 1979 Sicily
La Provincia di Cremona 9,678 Cremona 1947 Province of Cremona (Lombardy)
Gazzetta del Sud 8,949 Messina 1952north-western Sicily, Calabria
Corriere Adriatico 8,438 Ancona 1860 Marche
La Sicilia 7,616 Catania 1945 Sicily
Il Tempo 7,502Rome1944 Lazio, Umbria
Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia 7,411 Lecce 1979southern Apulia
Il Centro 7,329 Pescara 1986 Abruzzo
Alto Adige 7,287Bolzano1945 South Tyrol
La Provincia Pavese 6,905 Pavia 1879 Province of Pavia (Lombardy)
La Tribuna di Treviso 6,651 Treviso 1978 Province of Treviso (Veneto)
La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno 6,350 Bari 1887 Apulia
Giornale di Sicilia 5,504 Palermo 1860 Sicily
Gazzetta di Modena 5,286 Modena 1859 Province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna)
Gazzetta di Reggio 5,122 Reggio Emilia 1860 Province of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna)
La Nuova Venezia 4,755Venice1978 Province of Venice (Veneto)
Corriere delle Alpi 3,941 Belluno 1978 Province of Belluno (Veneto)
La Nuova Ferrara 3,920 Ferrara 1989 Province of Ferrara (Emilia-Romagna)
Corriere dell'Umbria 3,886 Perugia 1983 Umbria
Editoriale Oggi n.a. Frosinone 1988 Lazio
Trentino n.a.Trento1945 Trentino
Il T n.a.Trento2022 Trentino
Roma n.a.Naples1862 Campania
Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung n.a.Bolzano1996 South Tyrol
Il Quotidiano del Sud n.a. Castrolibero 1995 Calabria, Basilicata, Campania
La Voce di Rovigo n.a. Rovigo 2004 Province of Rovigo (Veneto)
Primorski dnevnik n.a.Trieste1945 Slovene minority in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Sports

Listed according to circulation, updated to June 2024. [4]

NewspaperCirculationHeadquartersEst.
La Gazzetta dello Sport 155,169 [19] Milan1896
Corriere dello Sport 43,597 [20] Rome1924
Tuttosport 23,318 [21] Turin1945

Publishers

Some media companies publish several newspapers, ordered by cumulative circulation:

See also

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<i>Corriere della Sera</i> Italian daily newspaper (founded 1876)

Corriere della Sera is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, Corriere della Sera is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, clericalism, and Giovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time as prime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to the Italian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925.

<i>la Repubblica</i> Italian daily newspaper

la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper with an average circulation of 151,309 copies in May 2023. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo, and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as a leftist newspaper, which proclaimed itself a "newspaper-party". During the early years of la Repubblica, its political views and readership ranged from the reformist left to the extraparliamentary left. Into the 21st century, it is identified with centre-left politics, and was known for its anti-Berlusconism, and Silvio Berlusconi's personal scorn for the paper.

<i>La Stampa</i> Italian daily newspaper (founded 1867)

La Stampa is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023. 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, La Stampa and Corriere della Sera were not real national daily newspapers, as their geographical area of circulation was mostly limited to Piedmont for La Stampa and Lombardy for Corriere della Sera; 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. La Stampa has "historically" been Turin's newspaper of record. It is considered one of Italy's leading national newspapers alongside Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Il Messaggero.

il Giornale, known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as il Giornale nuovo, is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 copies in May 2023. In 2006, it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata</span> Italian news agency

The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata is the leading news agency in Italy and one of the top ranking in the world. ANSA is a not-for-profit cooperative, whose members and owners are 36 leading news organizations in Italy.

<i>Giornale di Sicilia</i> Italian daily newspaper

Giornale di Sicilia is an Italian national daily newspaper for the island of Sicily. It is based in Palermo, and is the best-selling newspaper in Sicily. Since 2017, it is owned by the daily newspaper of Messina, Gazzetta del Sud.

<i>La Sicilia</i> Italian newspaper

La Sicilia is an Italian national daily newspaper for the island of Sicily. Published in Catania, it is the second best-selling newspaper in Sicily. It was first published in 1945.

<i>Il Foglio</i> Italian daily newspaper

Il Foglio is an Italian daily newspaper with circulation around 25.000 copies per day, with an overall spread of 47.000, as of 2015. It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara. Since 2015, it has been directed by Claudio Cerasa.

<i>Il Mattino</i> Italian daily newspaper

Il Mattino is an Italian daily newspaper published in Naples, Italy.

<i>Libero</i> (newspaper) Italian daily newspaper (founded 2000)

Libero, also known as Libero Quotidiano, is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 22,709 copies in May 2023. In 2004, Angelo Agostini categorized Libero, alongside Il Foglio and l'Unità, as an activist daily, in contrast to the institution daily like Corriere della Sera and La Stampa, and the agenda daily like la Repubblica.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GEDI Gruppo Editoriale</span> Italian media conglomerate

GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A., formerly known as Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso S.p.A., is an Italian media conglomerate. Founded in 1955, it is based in Turin, Italy.

<i>Corriere dello Sport</i> Italian sports daily newspaper

Corriere dello Sport is an Italian national sports newspaper based in Rome, Italy. It is one of three major Italian sports daily newspapers and has the largest readership in central and southern Italy, the fourth most read throughout the country.

<i>Il Giorno</i> (newspaper) Italian newspaper

Il Giorno is an Italian-language national daily newspaper, based in Milan, Italy; it has numerous local editions in Lombardy.

<i>Gazzetta del Sud</i>

Gazzetta del Sud is an Italian national daily newspaper for the south of Italy. The paper is published in Messina. Since 2017, it owns also the Giornale di Sicilia.

<i>La Nuova Sardegna</i> Italian newspaper

La Nuova Sardegna is an Italian regional daily newspaper for the island of Sardinia.

<i>Messaggero Veneto</i> Italian local daily newspaper

Messaggero Veneto, whose subtitle is Giornale del Friuli, is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in Udine. It has the largest readership in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The Monday edition is called Messaggero del Lunedì.

<i>La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno</i> Regional newspaper in Italy

La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno is an Italian daily newspaper, founded in 1887 in Bari, Italy. It is one of the leading newspapers published in Southern Italy, with most of its readers living in Apulia and Basilicata.

l'Adige is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in Trento. It is sold in Trentino and is the most read newspaper in the region, along with its main rivals Corriere del Trentino and Trentino.

La Nuova Venezia is an Italian language regional daily newspaper published in Venice, Italy. It has been in circulation since 1984.

La Tribuna di Treviso is an Italian language regional daily newspaper published in Treviso, Italy. It has been in circulation since 1978.

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  19. 145,231 on Mondays.
  20. 42,552 on Mondays.
  21. 27,297 on Mondays.

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