is an Italian weekly
news magazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or new ...
published in
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 ...
. Founded in 1939, it is one of the oldest magazines still under publication in the country.
History and profile
was established in Milan
in June 1939.
The magazine was modelled on the American magazine ''
Life
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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.][ 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 editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...
of the weekly.[
is owned by the ]RCS media group
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli Editore and Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, ra ...
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 had a ]monarchist
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political stanceLady Diana
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's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.
Circulation
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.][ 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 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.]
See also
* List of magazines in Italy
In Italy there are many magazines. In the late 1920s there were nearly one hundred literary magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in numbe ...
References
External links
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1939 establishments in Italy
Italian-language magazines
Magazines established in 1939
Magazines published in Milan
News magazines published in Italy
Weekly magazines published in Italy