La Stampa

Infobox Newspaper
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caption = Front page, 2006-12-10
type = National daily newspaper
format = Berliner
foundation = 1867
ceased publication =
price = 1.00 €
owners = Fiat Group
publisher = Editrice La Stampa
editor = Giulio Anselmi
language = Italian
political = Liberalism, Centre-left
circulation = 307,053 (2005) [Data for average number of paid-for copies ("Totale pagata") from the "Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa" (Ads) survey on 2005 newspapers sales in Italy [http://cmt.primaonline.it/allegati/file122710229698874.xls] (Excel file).]
headquarters = Via Marenco 32, Turin, Italy
ISSN = 1122-1763
website = http://www.lastampa.it/

"La Stampa" (literally “The Press”) is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations. The current owner is the Fiat Group.

It was founded in 1867 with the name "Gazzetta Piemontese". In 1895 the newspaper was bought (and by then directed) by Alfredo Frassati (father of Pier Giorgio Frassati), who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticising the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli.

It launched a website in 1999.

Since May 26, 2006, is published a montly magazine: "Specchio+". Until January 26, 1999, to April 7, 2006, was called "Specchio" and was published as weekly magazine.

On February 1, 2006, it published the controversial Muhammad Drawings.

In the last years, many rumors were defused about the buyout of La Stampa by some italian publishers like Caltagirone Editore, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and De Agostini.

People

Editors
*Giulio Anselmi (Editor)
*Massimo Gramellini (Vice-Editor)
*Roberto Bellato (Vice-Editor)
*Umberto La Rocca (Vice-Editor)
*Federico Geremicca (Vice-Editor, Rome)

Columnist & Journalists
*Massimo Gramellini (Columnist)
*Barbara Spinelli (Columnist)
*Lucia Annunziata (Columnist)
*Guido Ceronetti (Columnist)
*Anna Mina Mazzini aka Mina (Columnist)
*Maurizio Molinari (Journalist)
*Stefania Miretti (Columnist)
*Roberto Beccantini (Columnist)
*Altiero Scicchitano (Columnist)
*Fiamma Nirenstein (Columnist)
*A. B. Yehoshua (Columnist)

McDonald's lawsuit

In May 2002, McDonald's sued La Stampa food critic and slow food advocate Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $25 million in damages. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030530-124855-2362r.htm]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.lastampa.it La Stampa.it]
* [http://www.lastampashop.it lastampashop]
* [http://www.nostalgia.it/ Radio Nostalgia, the La Stampa-owned local radio station.]