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''Il Giorno'' 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 ...
based in the city of
Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Italy. It has numerous local editions in Lombardy.


History and profile

''Il Giorno'' was founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca on 21 March 1956, with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge ''
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'', also a daily newspaper published in Milan. Later, because of a financial crisis, Italian public administrator
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and the
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bought part of the publishing company. The paper maintains a liberal political stance. In 1959, Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the newspaper's editor. One of the former contributors of the paper was Adolfo Battaglia. In 1997, Eni sold ''Il Giorno'' to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers ('' il Resto del Carlino'' and ''
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'' network. In 2000, ''Il Giorno'' switched from a
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to a tabloid format. The paper was published in tabloid format until 2003 when it adopted again broadsheet format. In 2009, the paper began to publish a new sports supplement.


Circulation

The 1988 circulation of ''Il Giorno'' was 290,000 copies. In 1992 it had a circulation of 170,000 copies. Its circulation was 75,601 copies in 2004. In 2008 the newspaper had a circulation of approximately 69,000 copies.Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008
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

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