Talk:List of newspapers in Italy

Proposed overhaul
This article has several issues, in my view. For each issue, I have a proposal: Of course, also the introduction and, generally-speaking the texts can be improved.
 * national/local sectioning: it is quite confusing, as some regional newspapers are listed in the first category → I would leave only newspapers which are available everywhere in the country in the "national" section, move all the others in the "regional/local" section and start a new section for sports newspapers;
 * circulation figures: they have not been updated for years → ADS gives circulation figures every month for most newspapers, thus we could easily have more up-to-date figures and, possibly, monthly updates (thanks to ADS, we could easily add some newspapers which are missing);
 * political alignments: most of them are hardly correct and/or sourceable → I would personally remove the column, otherwise I can easily fix the entries;
 * nameplates: some of them are out-of-date, most of them are missing, all of them make the tables less readable → what about simply removing them?

What do you think? Cheers, --Checco (talk) 17:48, 26 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I hope these issues will matter to someone. At some point, I will start editing the article anyway. --Checco (talk) 07:04, 31 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Done. I will do more, when possible. --Checco (talk) 18:48, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Il Sole 24 Ore
Any reader of the newspaper would recognise that it is liberal, not merely economic-liberal. It holds a broadly liberal and, to some extent, progressive worldview. The newspaper's older predecessor, Il Sole, was launched by liberals and, more precisely, radicals, reformists democrats and republicans (see history), while 24 Ore had an even more social-liberal worldview and its founders included Piero Colombi (Action Party), Roberto Tremelloni (Italian Democratic Socialist Party) and Eugenio Scalfari. Surely, the newspaper is owned by Confindustria, but being pro-business does not equal to economic liberalism. Il Sole 24 Ore is not merely an economic newspaper, thus, through its editorial line and its editorials, it gives a liberal to progressive interpretation of events. It is no surprise that most of its recent editors have been centre-left journalists and/or intellectuals, notably including Mario Deaglio (husband of Elsa Fornero and brother of Enrico Deaglio), Ernesto Auci (who has been recently involved in two liberal parties, Civic Choice and More Europe), Guido Gentili (hailing from the Italian Republican Party), Ferruccio de Bortoli, Gianni Riotta, Roberto Napolenano and Fabio Tamburini. While most editors have been distinctively social-liberal, others like Salvatore Carrubba (close to Forza Italia) have been distinctively liberal. Also, several of them have been involved in liberal think tanks, like Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. Moreover, also editorialists are usually liberal and/or centre-left types, and some of them have been involved in liberal and/or progressive parties. The newspaper is economic-liberal (moderately so), social-liberal, liberal internationalist and pro-Europeanist, in one word liberal. -- Checco (talk) 12:51, 20 August 2023 (UTC)