', whose subtitle is ', is an Italian local daily newspaper, based in

Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...

. It has the largest readership in

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

. The Monday edition is called ''Messaggero del Lunedì''.

History and profile

It was founded in 1946 when

Friuli Friuli (; ; or ; ; ) is a historical region of northeast Italy. The region is marked by its separate regional and ethnic identity predominantly tied to the Friulians, who speak the Friulian language. It comprises the major part of the autono ...

was still part of

Veneto Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is t ...

and

Venezia Giulia The Julian March ( Croatian and ), also called Julian Venetia (; ; ; ), is an area of southern Central Europe which is currently divided among Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia.

was claimed by the

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), known from 1945 to 1963 as the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country ...

. It was acquired by in 1998 and ceded to in 2023. The newspaper has its headquarters in Udine. ''Messaggero Veneto'' had a circulation of over 50,000 copies in 2008, while it was reduced to around 26,000 in 2023.

References

External links

Official Website
* 1946 establishments in Italy Italian-language newspapers GEDI Gruppo Editoriale Mass media in Udine Newspapers established in 1946 Daily newspapers published in Italy {{Italy-newspaper-stub