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''Oggi'' (
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: ''Today'') is an Italian weekly
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published in
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,
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. Founded in 1939 it is one of the oldest magazines in the country.


History and profile

''Oggi'' was established in Milan in June 1939. The magazine was modelled on the American magazine ''
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''. The early editors were
Mario Pannunzio Mario Pannunzio (5 March 1910 – 10 February 1968) was an Italian journalist and politician. As a journalist he was the director in charge of the daily newspaper Risorgimento Liberale (''Liberal reawakening'') in the 1940s and of the weekly p ...
and Arigo Benedetti. It was closed down in 1942 due to pressure from Fascists. The magazine was restarted in July 1945. From its restart in 1945 to 1956 the magazine was edited by Edilio Rusconi. Pino Belleri and Vittorio Buttafava are among the former
editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of the weekly. ''Oggi'' is owned by the
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and is published weekly by RCS Periodici, a subsidiary of the group. The magazine is edited by Umberto Brindani. At the beginning of the 1950s ''Oggi'' had a
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political stance. The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.


Circulation

''Oggi'' was one of the most read magazines in Italy with a circulation of 760,000 copies in the late 1940s. The magazine sold 450,000–500,000 copies in the period 1952–1953. In the mid-1960s the circulation of the magazine was 699,000 copies. By 1968 the magazine sold 848,000 copies. Its circulation rose to 950,000 copies in 1970. The weekly had a circulation of 550,740 copies in 1984. It rose to 728,533 copies between September 1993 and August 1994. In 2001 ''Oggi'' had a circulation of 748,000 copies. From December 2002 to November 2003 the average circulation of the magazine was 708,940 copies. Its circulation fell to 675,000 copies in 2004. The 2007 circulation of the magazine was 623,679 copies. In 2010 the magazine had a circulation of 511,539 copies. Its circulation during the first half of 2013 was 66,045 copies.


See also

*
List of magazines in Italy In Italy there are many magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in number in the country. The number of consumer magazines was 975 in 1995 ...


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