Famiglia Cristiana
| Editor | Antonio Sciortino |
|---|---|
| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 544,576 (2010) |
| Publisher | Periodici San Paolo |
| Founded | 1931 |
| First issue | 25 December 1931 |
| Company | Edizioni San Paolo |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Alba/Milan, Italy |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | Famiglia Cristiana |
Famiglia Cristiana (meaning The Christian family in English) is an Italian weekly magazine published in Alba, Italy.[1] The magazine is a Catholic news magazine and has been in circulation since 1931.
History and profile
Famiglia Cristiana was founded by Pia Società San Paolo, a Catholic foundation, in Milan in 1931.[2][3] The first issue appeared on 25 December 1931.[3] Its original aim was to guide Catholics living in the rural and provincial north Italy to successfully cope with the spiritual and practical challenges of modern life.[4] During its early years it was a local magazine targeting women.[4] The magazine was temporarily suspended in the course of World War II.[3] In 1954 its coverage expanded to include articles about food, fashion, politics and religion.[4] However, its readers remained to be mainly women who resided in the northern Italy and were from the middle class in the urban and rural regions.[3]
The magazine is owned by Edizioni San Paolo, a Roman Catholic publishing group[5] and is published by Periodici San Paolo on a weekly basis.[6][7] It has its headquarters in Alba.[4]
In 1955 Famiglia Cristiana became an illustrated weekly magazine.[8]
Circulation
Famiglia Cristiana enjoyed higher levels of circulation from the late 1950s.[8] In 1961 the magazine sold 1,000,000 copies, and its circulation was 1.7 million copies in the late 1960s.[9]
The magazine had a circulation of 1,123,071 copies in 1984.[10] The weekly sold 1,070,652 copies in the period between September 1993 and August 1994.[11] In the mid-1990s the magazine had the highest circulation among other Catholic periodicals in Italy.[12]
Famiglia Cristiana sold 895,000 copies in 2001.[13] The 2003 circulation of the weekly was 742,000 copies.[5] Its circulation was 778,000 copies in 2004.[14]
The circulation of Famiglia Cristiana was 644,316 copies in 2007.[15][16] In 2010 the circulation of the magazine fell to 544,576 copies.[7]
See also
References
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- ^ "The press in Italy". BBC. 31 October 2006. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
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- ^ a b c d Niamh Cullen (2013). "Morals, modern identities and the Catholic woman: fashion in Famiglia Cristiana, 1954–1968". Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 18 (1): 33–52. doi:10.1080/1354571X.2013.730272. S2CID 144119388.
- ^ a b "Influential weeklies". BBC. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
- ^ Gino Moliterno, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (PDF). London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-74849-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2015.
- ^ a b "World Magazine Trends 2010/2011" (PDF). FIPP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ a b Penelope Morris (2007). "A window on the private sphere: Advice columns, marriage, and the evolving family in 1950s Italy". The Italianist. 27. doi:10.1179/026143407X234194.
- ^ Laura Ciglioni (2017). "Italian Public Opinion in the Atomic Age: Mass-market Magazines Facing Nuclear Issues (1963–1967)". Cold War History. 17 (3): 205–221. doi:10.1080/14682745.2017.1291633. S2CID 157614168.
- ^ Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "Top paid-circulation consumer magazines". Ad Age. 17 April 1995. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Cindy Wooden (6 December 1996). "Top Catholic Magazine Resists Vatican". National Catholic Reporter.
- ^ "Top 50 General Interest magazines worldwide (bycirculation)" (PDF). Magazine.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ^ "European Publishing Monitor. Italy" (PDF). Turku School of Economics and KEA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ^ "Dati ADS (tirature e vendite)". Fotografi (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
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