{{Short description|Italian newspaper}} {{Other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = {{Lang|it|il Giornale}} | image = Front page, 31 December 2023.webp | image_size = 200px | caption = Front page, 31 December 2023 | motto = | logo = Il Giornale Logo.svg | type = Daily newspaper | format = Tabloid | founded = {{start date and age|1974}} | owners = Antonio Angelucci (via investment vehicles) | founder = Indro Montanelli | publisher = Società Europea di Edizioni | political_position = Liberal conservatism<br>Pro-centre-right <small>(since 1994)</small> | circulation = 34,891 (November 2021) | headquarters = Via dell'Aprica 18, Milan, Italy | editor = Vittorio Feltri<br>Alessandro Sallusti | language = Italian | ISSN = 1124-8831 | website = {{official URL}} }}
'''{{Lang|it|il Giornale}}''' ({{langx|en|"the Newspaper"}}), known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as '''{{Lang|it|il Giornale nuovo}}''' ({{langx|en|"the new Newspaper"}}), is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 in May 2023.<ref>''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa'', May 2023.</ref> In 2006, it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers.<ref>{{cite news |date=31 October 2006 |title=The press in Italy |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4373775.stm |url-status=live |work=BBC News |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231231105953/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4373775.stm |archive-date=31 December 2023 |access-date=31 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Filistrucchi|first=Lapo|date=February 2006|url=https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/3353/ECO2005-12.pdf|title=The Impact of Internet on the Market for Daily Newspapers in Italy|journal=EUI Working Paper|page=5|access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref><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 and profile== {{See also|Conservatism in Italy}} The newspaper was founded in 1974 by the journalist Indro Montanelli,<ref name=lblib>{{cite journal|author1=Luigi Bruti Liberati|title=Witch-hunts and Corriere della Sera. A conservative perception of American political values in Cold War Italy: The 1950s|journal=Cold War History|date=2011|volume=11|issue=1|doi=10.1080/14682745.2011.545599|pages=69–83}}</ref><ref name=ginom>{{cite book|editor=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|date=2005|publisher=Routledge|location=London and New York|isbn=978-0-203-74849-7|url=http://sociology.sunimc.net/htmledit/uploadfile/system/20100921/20100921021511436.pdf|access-date=11 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109142838/http://sociology.sunimc.net/htmledit/uploadfile/system/20100921/20100921021511436.pdf|archive-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> together with the colleagues Enzo Bettiza, Ferenc Fejtő, Raymond Aron, and others, after some disagreements with the new pro-left-wing editorial line adopted by the newspaper {{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}, where Montanelli had been one of the most important contributors. Montanelli left {{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} in 1973.<ref name=lblib/> The newspaper was first published on 25 June 1974 as {{Lang|it|il Giornale nuovo}},<ref name="ginom" /><ref>{{cite web|author1=Eugénie Saitta|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=live|work=ECPR|access-date=24 November 2014|location=Nicosia, Cyprus|format=Conference Paper|date=April 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623112724/http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> with Montanelli as editor and member of the publishing company board of directors, which included an editorial office composed of 59 journalists. The paper holds conservative and right-wing stances.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Conway|first1=Kyle|last2=Davier|first2=Lucile|date=24 April 2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EHGQDwAAQBAJ|title=Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence|location=Amsterdam|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=EHGQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 57]|isbn=978-90-272-6255-4|access-date=27 June 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Brändle et al. 2021, p. 136">{{cite book|last1=Brändle|first1=Verena|last2=Cinalli|first2=Manlio|last3=Eisele|first3=Olga|last4=Lahusen|first4=Christian|last5=Trenz|first5=Hans-Jörg|date=13 April 2021|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4QfEAAAQBAJ|title=Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe|location=London|publisher=Routledge|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=f4QfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT136 136]|isbn=978-1-000-37048-5|access-date=27 June 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref> The paper's headquarters is in Milan.<ref>{{cite web|title=Communicating Europe: Italy Manual|url=http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/enlargement_debates_manual_italy.pdf|work=European Stability Initiative|access-date=7 May 2015|date=19 May 2008}}</ref>
In 1977, Montanelli, who was in financial difficulties, accepted an offer by Silvio Berlusconi, who became the new owner.<ref name="emap">{{cite journal|author=Emanuela Poli|title=Silvio Berlusconi and the myth of the creative entrepreneur|journal=Modern Italy|date=1998|volume=3|issue=2|pages=271–279|doi=10.1080/13532949808454809}}</ref> In 1983, the paper was renamed as {{Lang|it|il Giornale}}.<ref name="ginom" /> When Berlusconi entered politics in December 1993, Montanelli left fearing for his own independence, and went on to found the short-lived daily newspaper ''La Voce''.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Piero Benetazzo|title=Berlusconi and the Battle for the Italian Media|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-16028127/berlusconi-and-the-battle-for-the-italian-media|journal=Nieman Reports|date=Winter 1994|volume=48|issue=4|access-date=|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080857/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-16028127/berlusconi-and-the-battle-for-the-italian-media|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1992, Berlusconi left the role of the owner of {{Lang|it|il Giornale}} to his brother, Paolo Berlusconi.<ref name="emap" /> Vittorio Feltri replaced Montanelli as editor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giornale, Il nell'Enciclopedia Treccani |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/il-giornale |access-date=28 June 2023 |website=Treccani |language=it}}</ref> {{As of|2003}}, the publisher of the newspaper, Società Europea di Edizioni,<ref name="kbg">{{cite web|title=Il Giornale shrinks format, boosts flexibility|url=http://www.kba.com/en/news/detail/article/il-giornale-shrinks-format-boosts-flexibility/|work=König and Bauer Group|access-date=26 February 2015|date=8 May 2005|archive-date=26 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226075453/http://www.kba.com/en/news/detail/article/il-giornale-shrinks-format-boosts-flexibility/|url-status=dead}}</ref> was owned by Paolo Berlusconi (58.3%) and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (41.7% directly and indirectly).<ref name="dwa" /> Until May 2005, the paper was published in broadsheet format,<ref name="wan3" /> when it switched to tabloid format.<ref name="kbg" /> In May 2005, {{Lang|it|il Giornale}} also started its online version.<ref>{{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> In 2007, the monthly business magazine ''Espansione'' became a supplement of the paper.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fabio Metitieri – June 2008 English Résumé|url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fmetitie/htm/cv_en.htm|work=Xoomer|access-date=1 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Le nostre testate|url=http://www.newspapermilano.it/testate.html|work=Newspaper Milano|access-date=2 April 2015|language=it}}</ref> As of 2016, Società Europea di Edizioni was still partially owned by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore directly for 36.90%,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.mondadori.it/content/uploads/2017/03/Annual-report-2016-1.pdf|title=2016 Annual Report|date=2017|access-date=25 November 2017|publisher=Arnoldo Mondadori Editore|archive-date=19 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219202430/http://static.mondadori.it/content/uploads/2017/03/Annual-report-2016-1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> which is a listed company that majority owned by Fininvest. It was reported that by {{ill|Roberto Amodei|it|Roberto Amodei}}, the owner of several sports newspaper of Italy, had interested to subscribe the capital increase of Società Europea di Edizioni.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lettera43.it/it/articoli/media/2017/08/23/editoria-il-nuovo-socio-de-il-giornale-sara-roberto-amodei/213120/|title=Editoria, il nuovo socio de Il Giornale sarà Roberto Amodei|date=23 August 2017|access-date=25 November 2017|website=lettera43.it|language=it}}</ref>
The Berlusconi family sold ''il Giornale'' to Antonio Angelucci (who also owns ''Libero'' and ''Il Tempo'') in September 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 December 2022 |title=Angelucci è il nuovo editore de Il Giornale |url=https://www.primaonline.it/2022/12/31/369326/berlusconi-cede-il-giornale/ |website=Prima Comunicazione |language=it-IT}}</ref>
==Circulation== In 1997, {{Lang|it|il Giornale}} was the seventh best-selling Italian newspaper, with a circulation of 218,741 copies.<ref>{{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> The paper had a circulation of 235,000 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> The circulation of the paper was 228,198 copies in 2001, and it was 219,363 copies in 2002.<ref name=dwa>{{cite web|author=David Ward|title=A Mapping Study of Media Concentration and Ownership in Ten European Countries|url=http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|work=Dutch Media Authority|access-date=11 February 2015|year=2004|archive-date=12 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203318/http://77.87.161.246/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/A-Mapping-Study-of-Media-Concentration-and-Ownership-in-Ten-European-Countries.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The circulation of the paper was 216,000 copies in 2003,<ref name=wan3>{{cite web|title=World Press Trends|url=http://www.wan-press.org/ecrire/upload/wpt2004.pdf|work=World Association of Newspapers|access-date=15 February 2015|location=Paris|date=2004}}</ref> and 208,407 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> In 2008, the paper had an average circulation of 192,667 copies.<ref>[http://www.adsnotizie.it/certif/certificati_2008.xls Data for average newspaper circulation. Survey in 2008 in Italy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722023523/http://www.adsnotizie.it/certif/certificati_2008.xls |date=22 July 2011 }} ''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa''</ref><ref name=ifa>{{cite web|title=National Newspapers|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_17-01-13.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=5 March 2015|archive-date=25 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525161435/http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_17-01-13.xls|url-status=dead}}</ref> The circulation of the paper was 184,882 copies in 2009 and 183,923 copies in 2010.<ref name=ifa/> In 2012, {{Lang|it|il Giornale}} sold 79,125,210 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daily newspapers: national circulation (2012)|url=http://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/1628538/RA14_Eng_Annex/aecfeb2e-4923-4b8e-8ade-c5de0bc04d0a|work=Agcom|access-date=12 June 2016|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727151719/https://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/1628538/RA14_Eng_Annex/aecfeb2e-4923-4b8e-8ade-c5de0bc04d0a|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2015, the circulation of the paper was about 68,000 copies.<ref name="Brändle et al. 2021, p. 136"/>
===''il Giornale della Libertà''=== '''{{Lang|it|il Giornale della Libertà}}''' was a free weekly political, headed by Michela Vittoria Brambilla, and attached to {{Lang|it|il Giornale}}. It was severely criticized by its editorial staff, who later went on strike, which was the second time after the departure of Montanelli.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.repubblica.it/2007/05/sezioni/politica/sciopero-giornale/sciopero-giornale/sciopero-giornale.html |title=Inserto dei 'Circoli della Libertà' e al 'Giornale' scatta lo sciopero|work=la Repubblica|date=31 May 2007|access-date=15 January 2009|language=it}}</ref> The last issue was published in May 2008.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 May 2008 |title=Si ricomincia da quì |pages=1–16 |work=Il Giornale della Libertà |url=http://www.ilgiornaledellaliberta.it/16-05-08/GDL19.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=28 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207165236/http://www.ilgiornaledellaliberta.it/16-05-08/GDL19.pdf |archive-date=7 February 2009}}</ref>
==Editors== * Indro Montanelli (1974–1994) * Vittorio Feltri (1994–1997) * Mario Cervi (1997–2000) * Maurizio Belpietro (2000–2007) * Mario Giordano (2007–2009) * Vittorio Feltri (2009–2010) * Alessandro Sallusti (2010–2021) * Augusto Minzolini (2021–2023) * Alessandro Sallusti (2023-today)
==Directors== * Indro Montanelli (25 June 1974 – 11 January 1994) * <small>Enzo Bettiza (25 June 1974 – 1983), co-director</small> * <small>Gian Galeazzo Biazzi Vergani (1983–1991), co-director</small> * <small>Federico Orlando (1991–1994), co-director</small> * Paolo Granzotto (''ad interim'', 12–19 January 1994) * Vittorio Feltri (20 January 1994 – 30 November 1997) * Mario Cervi (1 December 1997 – 19 November 2000) * Maurizio Belpietro (20 November 2000 – 7 October 2007) * Mario Giordano (8 October 2007 – 23 August 2009) * Vittorio Feltri (2nd time), (24 August 2009 – 23 September 2010) * Alessandro Sallusti (24 September 2010 – 26 September 2012) * <small>''vacant office'' (27 September – 2 October 2012)</small> * Alessandro Sallusti (2nd time), (3 October 2012 – 16 May 2021) * Livio Caputo (''interim'', 17 May – 14 June 2021) * Augusto Minzolini<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il Newspaper, Livio Caputo interim director. |url=https://www.fnsi.it/il-giornale-livio-caputo-interim-director |access-date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517194043/https://www.fnsi.it/il-giornale-livio-caputo-interim-director |url-status=dead}}</ref> (15 June 2021 – 6 September 2023) * Alessandro Sallusti (3rd time), editor-in-chief, (7 September 2023 – ''in office'') * Vittorio Feltri (3rd time), editorial director, (7 September 2023 – ''in office'')
== Journalists and collaborators (since 1994) == {{div col|colwidth=15em}} * Geminello Alvi * Paolo Armaroli * Gianni Baget Bozzo * Luciana Baldrighi * Gabriele Barberis * Matteo Basile * Massimo Bertarelli * Fausto Biloslavo * Francesco Boezi * Antonio Borrelli * Paolo Bracalini * Valeria Braghieri * Michele Brambilla * Claudio Borghi Aquilini * Pietrangelo Buttafuoco * Maurizio Cabona * Matteo Carnieletto * Mario Cervi * Gian Marco Chiocci * Chiara Clausi * Andrea Cortellari * Andrea Cuomo * Tony Damascelli * Francesco Damato * Giuseppe De Bellis * Fabrizio De Feo * Osvaldo De Paolini * Paolo Del Debbio * Francesco Maria Del Vigo * Luca Doninelli * Niccolò Ellena * Filippo Facci * Adalberto Falletta * Domenico Ferrara * Roberto Festorazzi * Marcello Foa * Carlo Franza * Clarissa Gigante * Mario Giordano * Alessandro Gnocchi * Jacopo Granzotto * Paolo Granzotto * Giordano Bruno Guerri * Luciano Gulli * Paolo Guzzanti * Marco Iacona * Andrea Indini * Massimo Introvigne * Xavier Jacobelli * Lucio Lami * Giancarlo Lehner * Thomas Leoncini * Marco Lombardo * Stefano Lorenzetto * Carlo Lottieri * Vittorio Macioce * Ida Magli * Maria Giovanna Maglie * Massimo Malpica Orabona * Fabio Marchese Ragona * Giuseppe Marino * Luigi Mascheroni * Nicola Matteucci * Gian Micalessin * Morgan * Giorgio Mulé * Amedeo Nigra * Fiamma Nirenstein * Franco Ordine * Piero Ostellino * Massimiliano Parente * Roberta Pasero * Carlo Pelanda * Riccardo Pelliccetti * Giancarlo Perna * Marco Pizzorno * Paolo Cirino Pomicino * Claudio Pompei * Nicola Porro * Andrea Pucci * Gaetano Quagliariello * Massimo Restelli * Sandro Rinaldini * Eugenia Roccella * Cinzia Romani * Diego Rubero * Orlando Sacchelli * Matteo Sacchi * Alessandro Sallusti * Roberto Scafuri * Salvatore Scarpino * Adalberto Signore * Riccardo Signori * Enrico Silvestri * Vittorio Sgarbi * Stenio Solinas * Luca Telese * Massimo Teodori * Giorgio Torelli * Salvatore Tramontano * Marcello Veneziani * Giorgio Vittadini * Stefano Zecchi * Stefano Vladovich * Stefano Zurlo * Marcello Zacché {{div col end}}
==Columns== The weekly columns published in ''il Giornale'' are as follows:
*Monday: ''La lente sulla casa'' (by Corrado Sforza Fogliani), ''Radiogiornale'' (by Paolo Giordano), ''Il Gervaso di Pandora-Aforismi in Libertà'' (by Roberto Gervaso) and ''Il Punto Serie A'' (by Tony Damascelli); *Tuesday: ''I lapilli di Pompeo'' (by Pompeo Locatelli) and ''Box Office'' (by Cinzia Romani); *Wednesday: ''Teledico'' (by Laura Rio) and ''Una macchina chiamata corpo'' (by Corrado Bait, only in Salute specials); *Thursday: ''La mostra della Settimana'' (by Carlo Franza), ''Strisce pedonali'' (by Massimo Ghenzer), ''FuoriSerie'' (by Matteo Sacchi) and ''Malati e Malattie'' (by Gloria Saccani Jotti); *Friday: ''Retrobottega'' (by Andrea Cuomo), ''Mercati che fare'' (by Leopoldo Gasbarro), ''Teledico''; *Saturday: ''Zuppa di Porro'' (by Nicola Porro), ''Qui e Ora'' (by Karen Rubin), ''Rosso Malpelo'' (by Paolo Guzzanti), ''Lo Spillo'' (unsigned), ''La vite è una cosa meravigliosa'' (by Andrea Cuomo, in the supplement), ''#lavitaèsoltantounaquestionedistile'' (by Marchesa d'Aragona, in the supplement), ''Un posto a teatro'' (by Stefania Vitulli); *Sunday: ''L'articolo della domenica'' (by Francesco Alberoni), ''Il consiglio utile'' (by Oscar Grazioli), ''Biblioteca Liberale'' (by Nicola Porro), ''Tagli di Piombo'' (by Massimo Piombo), ''Il quadro di Sgarbi'' (by Vittorio Sgarbi), ''La bacchettata'' (by Giovanni Gavezzeni), ''L'arte della Tv'' (by Luca Beatrice).
==See also== {{Portal|Italy|Journalism}} * List of newspapers in Italy
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.ilgiornale.it/}} {{in lang|it}}
{{Italian newspapers}} {{Authority control}}
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