''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily

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published in

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, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other

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an nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy.

History and profile

The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867 with the name ''Gazzetta Piemontese''. In 1895, the newspaper was bought (and by then edited) by Alfredo Frassati (father of

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), who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticising the 1924 murder of the

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, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli. The financier

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also took a share. The paper is now owned by GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, and has a centrist stance. The former contributors of ''La Stampa'' include Italian novelist

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. ''La Stampa'', based in

, was published in broadsheet format until November 2006 when the paper began to be published in the berliner format. It launched a

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in 1999. ''La Stampa'' also launched a project, called ''Vatican Insider'', run by the daily newspaper and has among its staff several Vatican affairs analysts. Since 26 May 2006, it has published a monthly magazine: ''Specchio+''. From 26 January 1996 to 7 April 2006, it was called ''Specchio'', which was published as a weekly supplement, a general interest magazine. In September 2012 ''La Stampa'' moved to its new headquarters in Turin, leaving its historical editorial building. Mario Calabresi is the

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of the daily. On 9 April 2013, an explosive device was sent by an anarchist group, the Federazione Anarchica Informale/Fronte Rivoluzionario, to the offices of ''La Stampa''. It did not detonate. In June 2017, during the celebration for its 150 years of activity, ''La Stampa'' hosted the international conference "The Future of Newspaper", where many great actors of the news industry discussed about the future prospects for the news agencies. Among them

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, editor of ''La Stampa'',

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from ''

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'' and was replaced by Massimo Giannini (former journalist of ''la Repubblica'' and Radio Capital). Under his guide, ''La Stampa'' moved to a mild centre-left position.

Circulation

The 1988 circulation of ''La Stampa'' was 560,000 copies. In 1997 the paper had a circulation of 376,493 copies. Its circulation was 399,000 copies in 2000 and 409,000 copies in 2001. The circulation of the paper was 330,000 copies in 2003 and 345,060 copies in 2004. Its 2007 circulation was 314,000 copies. It was 256,203 copies in 2012.

Contributors

Editors * Massimo Giannini (Editor) * Massimo Gramellini (Vice-Editor) * Roberto Bellato (Vice-Editor) * Umberto La Rocca (Vice-Editor) * Federico Geremicca (Vice-Editor, Rome) Columnists and journalists * Massimo Gramellini (Columnist) *

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(Columnist) * Mario Deaglio (Columnist) * Lucia Annunziata (Columnist) *

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(Columnist) * Mina (Columnist) * Maurizio Molinari (Journalist) * Stefania Miretti (Columnist) *

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(Columnist) * Altiero Scicchitano (Columnist) * Fiamma Nirenstein (Columnist) Former journalists * Giovanni Arpino *

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Norberto Bobbio Norberto Bobbio (; 18 October 1909 – 9 January 2004) was an Italian philosopher of law and political sciences and a historian of political thought. He also wrote regularly for the Turin-based daily ''La Stampa''. Bobbio was a social libe ...

Antonio Carluccio Antonio Carluccio, OBE OMRI (; 19 April 1937 – 8 November 2017) was an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. He was called "the godfather of Italian gastronomy", with a career of more than 50 years. He is perhaps best re ...

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* Franco Lucentini * Lorenzo Soria

References

External links

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Radio Nostalgia, the La Stampa-owned local radio station.

Historical archives of ''La Stampa''

''La Stampa Sportiva''
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History and profile

Circulation

Contributors

See also

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Further reading

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