la Repubblica

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Front page, 2007-11-07
Type National daily newspaper
Format Berliner
Owner Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
Editor Ezio Mauro
Founded January 14, 1976
Political allegiance Progressivism
Language Italian
Headquarters Rome, Italy
Circulation 587,268 (2005) [1]
Website www.repubblica.it
Il Venerdì.

la Repubblica (meaning: "the Republic") is, as of 2008, the second largest circulation[2] Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso led by Eugenio Scalfari and Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as Radicalist/Socialist newspaper[3], It has since kept a centre-left political stance.[4]

Was one of the first Italian newspaper to use Bodoni serif typefaces.[3]

Contents

[edit] Supplements and features

  • Il Venerdì
  • La Domenica di Repubblica
  • D - La repubblica delle Donne (weekly magazine devoted to a female audiences)
    • DCasa (weekly supplement devoted to housing issues, which can be downloaded free of charge from its website.[5])
  • Velvet (monthly magazine devoted to fashion)
  • xL (monthly magazine devoted to a youth audiences)
  • Viaggi (weekly free supplement devoted to travel)
  • Salute (weekly free supplement devoted to health issues)

The newspaper also publishes a weekly english supplement in collaboration with The New York Times which can be downloaded free of charge from its website.[6]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Data for average number of paid-for copies (Totale pagata) from the Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa (Ads) survey on 2005 newspapers sales in Italy [1] (Excel file).
  2. ^ Data for average readers in 2006 from "Audipress" [2]
  3. ^ a b "La Storia siamo noi - \'\'la Repubblica\'\'" (in Italian). La Storia siamo noi (Rai Edu). 2006. http://www.lastoriasiamonoi.rai.it/puntata.aspx?id=256H. 
  4. ^ "Italy Premier’s Drama Unfolds in Press". The New York Times. 2009-05-03. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/world/europe/04iht-italy.html. "I’d like to close the curtain on our married life,' Veronica Lario, 52, told La Repubblica, the center-left daily despised by Mr. Berlusconi" 
  5. ^ Dcasa
  6. ^ The New York Times di Repubblica

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