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''L'Unione Sarda'' is a
daily newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ...
for the island of
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
. It is the oldest newspaper in Sardinia still publishing.


History and profile

''L'Unione Sarda'' was first published on 13 October 1889. In its initial phase Raffa Gazia was the publisher of the paper. It was a radical publication and
Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , ; ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosophy, Marxist philosopher, Linguistics, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, Political philosophy, political the ...
was among the contributors. He published his first article in the paper. ''L'Unione Sarda'' is based in
Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...
and owned by the Italian businessman Sergio Zuncheddu. Its publisher is L'Unione Sarda SPA. The paper has four editions. It has been the first European newspapers with its own website, launched in 1994. On its 120th anniversary of the establishment a commemorative stamp was published by the post of Italy on 13 October 2009. In 2004 the circulation of ''L'Unione Sarda'' was 66,700 copies. The paper had a circulation of 68,332 copies in 2008.Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008 in Italy
''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa''.


See also

*
List of newspapers in Italy This is a list of newspapers in Italy, ordered according to category/scope and circulation. The daily print newspapers in Italy were 107 in 1950, whereas there were 78 in 1965. It has further declined since and 76 are listed in this article: 22 ...


References


External links


Official website

''L'Unione Sarda'' historical front pages
{{DEFAULTSORT:Unione Sarda 1889 establishments in Italy Daily newspapers published in Italy Italian-language newspapers Mass media in Cagliari Newspapers established in 1889