''La Notte'' was an Italian

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published in

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between 1952 and 1995.

History

The newspaper was financed by industrialist

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, who wanted to curb the potential rise of communism in the country and support the majority electoral law, referred by the left-wing parties as a "swindle law". The journalist Setefano “Nino” Nutrizio, the former chief editor of sport news of ''

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'', was appointed editor, a position he held until 1979. The newspaper got an unexpected success, with a print run of 250,000 copies per day during the 1960s. Particular attention was given to crime news and sports. The paper also introduced several structural and conceptual innovations: it was the first Italian newspaper to publish

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. Following a significant drop in sales, the paper closed in January 1995. An attempt to relaunch it in 1997 only lasted a few weeks.

References

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