- L'espresso
"L'espresso" is a Italian weekly news magazine with national distribution. It is one of the two most prominent Italian weeklies, the other being "Panorama". Since the latter has been acquired by right-winged tycoon [Silvio Berlusconi, "L'espresso "enjoys the reputation of being the main politically independent newsmagazine in Italy. It currently has a circulation of 1.290.000.
"L'espresso" was launched in
1955 by the eponymous publisher ofRome . It is one of the oldest and most authoritative newsweekly in Europe. It has been at the center of most of the civil rights campaigns in Italy, from divorce to abortion. In1963 Eugenio Scalfari became its director. Other renowned Italian journalists and writer who worked for the magazine includeGiorgio Bocca ,Umberto Eco ,Giampaolo Pansa ,Enzo Biagi ,Michele Serra ,Marco Travaglio ,Roberto Saviano Naomi Klein andJeremy Rifkin ."L'espresso " has a [http://espresso.repubblica.it/ website] with news and blogs. An electronic edition is also available online, but only to subscribers. The magazine is presently based in Rome, but its business and finance newsroom is in MIlan , now under
Carlo De Benedetti 's property (also owning the major centre-left newspaper in Italy, "La Repubblica "). The current editor isDaniela Hamaui .External links
* [http://espresso.repubblica.it Official website]
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