Corriere della Sera

Front page, 2009-07-15
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	RCS MediaGroup
Editor	Ferruccio De Bortoli
Founded	March 5, 1876
Political alignment	Social liberalism
Language	Italian
Headquarters	Via Solferino 28, Milan, Italy
Circulation	619,890 [1]
ISSN	1120-4982
Official website	corriere.it

The headquarters in Milan.

The Corriere della Sera^[p] is an Italian daily newspaper, published in Milan.

It is among the oldest and most reputable Italian newspapers. Its main rivals are Rome's La Repubblica and Turin's La Stampa.

History

It was founded on Sunday, March 5, 1876, by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of Luigi Albertini, the Corriere della Sera became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its importance and influence into the present century.

The newspaper's offices have been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as "the Via Solferino newspaper", for the name of the street where it is still located. As the name indicates, it was originally printed in the evening (sera).

The Italian novelist Dino Buzzati was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. The "third page" (a page once entirely dedicated to culture, in the Italian tradition) contained a main article, named elzeviro, which has been signed by all the editors and the major novelists, poets and journalists of the country.

In the 1960s the Corriere became part of the Rizzoli group, listed in the Italian stock exchange. Its main shareholders are Mediobanca, the Fiat group and some of the biggest industrial and financial groups in Italy. The newspaper has however not endorsed Berlusconi's government on several issues, such as the war in Iraq.

In 1981 the newspaper was involved in the P2 scandal; the secret Italian Freemason lodge had the newspaper's editor Franco Di Bella and the former owner Angelo Rizzoli on its member lists.

People (past and present)

Editors

• Paolo Mieli (Editor)
• Paolo Ermini (Vice-Editor)
• Magdi Allam (Vice-Editor "ad personam")
• Pierluigi Battista (Deputy Editor)
• Dario Di Vico (Deputy Editor)
• Luciano Fontana (Deputy Editor)
• Lando Ferretti (former editor)

Columnist & Journalists

• Francesco Alberoni (Columnist)
• Enzo Biagi (Columnist)
• Ernesto Galli della Loggia (Columnist)
• Francesco Giavazzi (Columnist)
• Indro Montanelli ( Columnist and Journalist)
• Angelo Panebianco (Columnist)
• Mario Pappagallo (Journalist)
• Sergio Romano (Columnist)
• Giovanni Sartori (Columnist)
• Beppe Severgnini (Journalist)
• Franco Venturini (Columnist)

See also

	Italy portal
	Journalism portal

• Corriere dei Piccoli, originally a children's supplement of the Corriere della Sera.
• List of non-English newspapers with English language subsections

Notes

^{^[p]} The Italian title "Corriere della Sera" is pronounced as "corr-Yeh-reh dell-ah Seh-rah".^[2]

References

1. ^ Data for average Newspaper circulation (Diffusione media (Italia + Estero)) from the Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa (Ads) survey on 2008 in Italy [1]
2. ^ "How to Pronounce All Things tokidoki Correctly", webmaster, Tokidoki-blog.com, 31 July 2007

External links

• Official website (Mobile) (Italian)
  • Articles in English and Chinese
• September/October, November and December 1969 historical front pages.