{{Short description|Italian daily newspaper (founded 1867)}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=January 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} | logo = La_Stampa.svg | image = border | caption = Front page, 10 December 2006 | type = Daily newspaper | format = Berliner | founded = {{start date and age|df=yes|1867|2|1}} | ceased_publication = | owners = GEDI Gruppo Editoriale | publisher = GEDI Gruppo Editoriale | editor = Andrea Malaguti | language = Italian | political_position = Social liberalism<br />Progressivism <br />'''Formerly''':<br />Fascism (1925–1945)<br />Anti-communism | circulation = 256,203 (2012) | headquarters = Via Marenco 32, Turin, Italy | sister_newspapers = {{Lang|it|la Repubblica}} (since 2017) | ISSN = 1122-1763 | website = {{official URL}} }}
'''{{Lang|it|La Stampa}}''' (English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper. Headquartered in Turin and owned by the Agnelli family, {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} is one of Italy's oldest and most prominent national newspapers.<ref name=lapo/><ref>{{cite news |date=3 July 2023 |title=Italy media guide |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17433146 |url-status=live |work=BBC News Online |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231230212709/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17433146 |archive-date=30 December 2023 |access-date=30 December 2023}}</ref>
==History == The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867,<ref name=lapo>{{cite journal|author=Lapo Filistrucchi|title=The Impact of Internet on the Market for Daily Newspapers in Italy|journal=EUI Working Paper|date=February 2006|url=http://www.eea-esem.com/files/papers/EEA-ESEM/2007/1932/Paper1EUI-WPmod.pdf|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213092334/http://www.eea-esem.com/files/papers/EEA-ESEM/2007/1932/Paper1EUI-WPmod.pdf|archive-date=13 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=sabi>{{cite news|title=Sabiana inside the La Stampa newsroom in Turin|url=http://www.sabiana.it/en/references_details.php?id_reference=119|access-date=5 February 2015|work=Sabiana|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205210739/http://www.sabiana.it/en/references_details.php?id_reference=119|archive-date=5 February 2015}}</ref> with the name ''Gazzetta Piemontese''.<ref name=esi>{{cite web|title=Communicating Europe: Italy Manual|url=http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/enlargement_debates_manual_italy.pdf|work=European Stability Initiative|access-date=23 November 2014|date=19 May 2008}}</ref> In 1895, the newspaper was bought, and by then edited, by {{interlanguage link|Alfredo Frassati|de||fr||it||pl}} (father of Pier Giorgio Frassati), who gave it its current name and a national perspective.<ref name=esi/> For criticizing the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli, who cofounded the automobile manufacturer Fiat.<ref>{{Cite web |title=33 magnificently random things made by car makers {{!}} Autocar |url=https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/33-magnificently-random-things-made-car-makers-10#3 |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=www.autocar.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref name=esi/> The financier Riccardo Gualino also took a share.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corsi.storiaindustria.it/areetematiche/protagonisti/001/riccardo_gualino/index.shtml |title=Riccardo Gualino|work=Storia e Cultura dell'Industria|access-date=2015-07-24}}</ref>
Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Italy underwent a nationalization process, {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} and {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} were not real national daily newspapers, as their geographical area of circulation was mostly limited to Piedmont for {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} and Lombardy for {{lang|it|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.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last=Saitta |first=Eugénie |date=April 2006 |title=The Transformations of Traditional Mass Media Involvement in the Political and Electoral Process |url=http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623112724/http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf |archive-date=23 June 2015 |access-date=27 June 2023 |publisher=European Consortium for Political Research |pages=6–7 |format=Conference Paper |location=Nicosia, Cyprus}}</ref> The paper is now owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale.<ref name="phum" /> The former contributors of {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} include Italian novelist Alberto Moravia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|author-link=Ruth Ben-Ghiat|title=Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|url=http://documenta_pdf.jmir.dyndns.org/R.Ben_Ghiat.FascistModernities_2001.pdf|access-date=29 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229212413/http://documenta_pdf.jmir.dyndns.org/R.Ben_Ghiat.FascistModernities_2001.pdf|archive-date=29 December 2014}}</ref> In 2004, {{ill|Angelo Agostini (1959–2014)|lt=Angelo Agostini|it|Angelo Agostini (giornalista)}} categorized {{lang|it|La Stampa}} as an institution daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-istituzione}}), alongside {{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}, in contrast to the agenda daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-agenda}}) such as {{Lang|it|la Repubblica}}, and the activist daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-attivista}}) such as {{Lang|it|Il Foglio}}, {{Lang|it|Libero}}, and {{Lang|it|l'Unità}}.<ref>{{cite web|last=Saitta|first=Eugénie|date=April 2006|url=http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf|url-status=dead|title=The Transformations of Traditional Mass Media Involvement in the Political and Electoral Process|format=Conference Paper|location=Nicosia, Cyprus|publisher=European Consortium for Political Research|pages=5–6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623112724/http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2015|access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|access-date=6 April 2020 |date=July–September 1970 |first=Giorgio |last=Mirandola |location=Firenze |journal=Lettere Italiane |number=2 |pages=298–324 |publisher=Leo S. Olschki |title=La «Gazzetta Letteraria» e la polemica dannunziana (1882–1900) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26250167 |volume=XXII|jstor=26250167 }}<!-- auto-translated from Italian by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
{{Lang|it|La Stampa}}, based in Turin,<ref name=lvz>{{cite web|author1=Jose L. Alvarez |author2=Carmelo Mazza |author3=Jordi Mur |title=The management publishing industry in Europe |url=http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |work=University of Navarra |access-date=27 April 2015 |format=Occasional Paper No:99/4 |date=October 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630042406/http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2010 }}</ref> was published in broadsheet format,<ref name=adsm/> until November 2006, when the paper began to be published in the Berliner format.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Roy Greenslade|title=Italy's La Stampa adopts Berliner format|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2006/nov/20/italyslastampaadoptsberlin|access-date=5 February 2015|work=The Guardian|date=20 November 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=The Berliner format|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gpc/berliner-format|access-date=24 November 2014|work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Tony Harcup|title=A Dictionary of Journalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtzHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|access-date=24 November 2014|date=May 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-964624-1|page=35}}</ref> It launched a website in 1999.<ref name="sabi" /> {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} also launched a project, called ''Vatican Insider'', run by the daily newspaper and has among its staff several Vatican affairs analysts.<ref>[http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/about-us/ About Us] {{Lang|it|La Stampa}}.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Elena Argentesi|title=Demand Estimation for Italian Newspapers: the Impact of Weekly Supplements|journal=Workshop on Media Economics|date=February 2004|url=http://www.eea-esem.com/papers/eea-esem/2004/1360/newspapersFeb2004.pdf|access-date=18 April 2015|location=Bergen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418111159/http://www.eea-esem.com/papers/eea-esem/2004/1360/newspapersFeb2004.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In September 2012, {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} moved to its new headquarters in Turin, leaving its historical editorial building.<ref name="sabi" /> {{interlanguage link|Mario Calabresi|de||eu||it}} was the editor-in-chief of the daily.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Turmoil for Italy Amid Resignation of 5 in Berlusconi's Party|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/world/europe/new-turmoil-for-italy-amid-resignation-of-5-in-berlusconis-party.html?_r=0|access-date=29 September 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=29 September 2013|author=Elisabetta Povoledo|location=Rome}}</ref><ref name="anbu">{{cite news|author1=Anne Penketh|author2=Philip Oltermann|author3=Stephen Burgen|title=European newspapers search for ways to survive digital revolution|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/12/european-newspapers-digital-revolution|access-date=7 January 2015|work=The Guardian|date=12 June 2014|location=Paris, Berlin, Barcelona}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Alastair Reid|title=Inside digital innovation at La Stampa|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/inside-digital-innovation-at-la-stampa/s2/a557646/|access-date=30 November 2014|work=Journalism|date=12 August 2014}}</ref>
On 9 April 2013, an explosive device was sent by an insurrectionary anarchist group, the Informal Anarchist Federation, to the offices of {{Lang|it|La Stampa}};<ref name="nra">{{cite news|author1=Nataliya Rovenskaya|title=Anarchists and suspected mafia target Italian media|url=http://cpj.org/blog/2013/04/anarchists-and-suspected-mafia-target-italian-medi.php|access-date=2 December 2014|work=Committee to Protect Journalists|date=April 2013}}</ref> it did not detonate.<ref name="nra" /> In June 2017, during the celebration for its 150 years of activity, {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} hosted the international conference "The Future of Newspaper", where many great actors of the news industry discussed the future prospects for the news agencies. Among them John Elkann, editor of {{Lang|it|La Stampa}}; Jeff Bezos, owner of ''The Washington Post;'' Louis Dreyfus, CEO of ''Le Monde;'' and Mark Thompson, CEO of ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2017/02/09/esteri/lastampa-in-english/the-challenge-is-to-look-forward-to-the-future-3ASnTAwJ8j5bqQM7GgTfiI/pagina.html|title=LaStampa - The Future of Newspapers}}</ref>
In April 2020, Maurizio Molinari was replaced by Massimo Giannini (former journalist of {{Lang|it|la Repubblica}} and Radio Capital). Under his guide, {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} moved to a more marked centre-left position.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-04-23|title=Massimo Giannini nuovo direttore de La Stampa, il comunicato del comitato di redazione|language=it-IT|work=lastampa.it|url=https://www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2020/04/23/news/massimo-giannini-nuovo-direttore-de-la-stampa-il-comunicato-del-comitato-di-redazione-1.38754268|access-date=2020-08-27}}</ref>
==Circulation== The 1988 circulation of {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} was 560,000 copies.<ref name=phum>{{cite book|author=Peter Humphreys|title=Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe|date=1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|page=90|isbn=9780719031977 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vlTzbOGhdIC&dq=media+and+magazines+in+central+europe&pg=PR6|access-date=29 October 2014}}</ref> In 1997, the paper had a circulation of 376,493 copies.<ref name=lvz/> Its circulation was 399,000 copies in 2000,<ref>{{cite news|title=Top 100 dailies 2000|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/49276/|access-date=2 March 2015|work=campaign|date=16 November 2001}}</ref> and 409,000 copies in 2001.<ref name="adsm">{{cite news|author=Adam Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=5 February 2015|work=campaign|date=15 November 2002}}</ref> The circulation of the paper was 330,000 copies in 2003,<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|title=The press in Italy|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4373775.stm|access-date=30 November 2014|work=BBC|date=31 October 2006}}</ref> and 345,060 copies in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor. Italy|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics and KEA|access-date=5 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411085843/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|archive-date=11 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its 2007 circulation was 314,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web|author=Anne Austin |display-authors=etal |title=Western Europe Market and Media Fact |url=http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20&%20MediaFact%202008.pdf |work=Zenith Optimedia |access-date=10 April 2015 |date=2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf |archive-date= 5 February 2015 }}</ref> In 2012, the circulation was 256,203 copies.<ref>{{cite web|last=Borghi|first=Roberto|date=7 September 2012|url=http://www.primaonline.it/2012/09/07/109215/quotidiani-luglio-2012-2/|title=Dati Ads Quotidiani – Luglio 2012|website=Prima Online|language=it|access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref> In May 2023, an average circulation was 87,143 copies.<ref name=":0" />
==Contributors== '''Editors''' * {{interlanguage link|Massimo Giannini|it||la|Maximus Giannini}} (editor) * Massimo Gramellini (vice-editor) * Roberto Bellato (vice-editor) * {{interlanguage link|Umberto La Rocca (journalist)|lt=Umberto La Rocca|it|Umberto La Rocca (giornalista)}} (vice-editor) * {{interlanguage link|Federico Geremicca|de||it||sv}} (vice-editor, Rome)
'''Columnists and journalists''' * Massimo Gramellini (columnist) * Barbara Spinelli (columnist) * {{interlanguage link|Mario Deaglio|it}} (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<!--<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstonline.info/author/adolfo-battaglia/|title=Autore: Adolfo Battaglia|website=FIRSTonline|language=it|date=1 November 2016|access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>--> * Enzo Bettiza * Norberto Bobbio * Antonio Carluccio * Carlo Fruttero * Franco Lucentini * Lorenzo Soria * Vincenzo Buonassisi
== Journalists == === 20th century === * Giovanni Arpino * {{interlanguage link|Mario Bassi (journalist)|lt=Mario Bassi|it|Mario Bassi (giornalista)}} * Enzo Bettiza * Enzo Biagi * {{interlanguage link|Ugo Buzzolan|it}} * Carlo Casalegno * Alberto Cavallari * Guido Ceronetti * {{interlanguage link|Giuseppe Depanis|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Rinaldo De Benedetti|it}}, noto come Didimo * Umberto Eco * Enrico Emanuelli * Carlo Fruttero * Virginio Gayda * {{interlanguage link|Carlo Laurenzi (writer)|lt=Carlo Laurenzi|it|Carlo Laurenzi (scrittore)}} * Emanuele Macaluso * Igor Man * Vittorio Messori * Augusto Minzolini * {{interlanguage link|Leo Pestelli|ca||it}} * Guido Piovene * Sandro Sandri * Luisa Macina Gervasio, known as {{interlanguage link|Luigi di San Giusto|it}} * Alberto Savinio * Barbara Spinelli * {{interlanguage link|Anacleto Verrecchia|de||it}}
===21st century=== * Flavia Amabile * Lucia Annunziata * Marco Ansaldo * {{interlanguage link|Riccardo Barenghi|it}} * Roberto Beccantini * Enzo Bettiza * {{interlanguage link|Piero Bianucci|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Alberto Bisin|it}} * Franco Bruni * Mimmo Càndito{{void|Fabrickator|comment|note discrepancy in accent over letter "a"}} * {{interlanguage link|Alessandra Comazzi|it}} * Guido Ceronetti * Maria Corbi * Maurizio Cucchi * Mario Deaglio * {{interlanguage link|Mattia Feltri|it||lmo}} * Fabrizio Ferrari * {{interlanguage link|Paolo Gallarati|it}} * Franco Garelli * Federico Geremicca * Massimo Gramellini (until 2017) * {{interlanguage link|Carlo Federico Grosso|fr||it}} * {{interlanguage link|Jacopo Iacoboni|it}} * Francesco La Licata * Luigi La Spina * {{interlanguage link|Stefano Lepri|it}} * Bernard-Henri Lévy (from 2018) * Cesare Martinetti * {{interlanguage link|Fabio Martini|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Anna Masera|it}} * Paolo Mastrolilli * Alberto Mattioli * {{interlanguage link|Maria Teresa Meli|it}} (until 2015) * Maurizio Molinari * {{interlanguage link|Gianluca Nicoletti|ca||it}} * Emanuele Novazio * Francesca Paci * {{interlanguage link|Vittorio Emanuele Parsi|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Walter Passerini|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Flavia Perina|arz|فلاڤيا پيرينا|it}} * Giorgio Pestelli * {{interlanguage link|Domenico Quirico|it}} * {{interlanguage link|Antonella Rampino|it}} * Carla Reschia * {{interlanguage link|Luca Ricolfi|it}} (until 2014) * {{interlanguage link|Gian Enrico Rusconi|it||pt}} * Linda Laura Sabbadini * {{interlanguage link|Claudio Sabelli Fioretti|it}} * Fabio Scuto * Marcello Sorgi * Lorenzo Soria (until 2020) * Giordano Stabile * {{interlanguage link|Federico Varese|de||it||sv}}
==See also== {{Portal|Italy|Journalism}} * List of newspapers in Italy * Mass media in Italy
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== * Merrill, John C.; Fisher, Harold A. (1980). ''The World's Great Dailies: Profiles of Fifty Newspapers''. pp. 104–110.
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Official website}} {{in lang|it}} * [http://www.nostalgia.it/ Radio Nostalgia] — ''La Stampa''-owned local radio station {{in lang|it}} * [http://www.archiviolastampa.it/ ''Archivio La Stampa''] — historical archives of {{Lang|it|La Stampa}} {{in lang|it}} * [https://www.byterfly.eu/islandora/object/mauto:ssportiva ''La Stampa Sportiva''] — paper archive {{in lang|it}}
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