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Oggi(magazine)

Oggi(Italian:Today) is an Italian weeklynews magazinepublished inMilan,Italy.Founded in 1939 it is one of the oldest magazines in the country.

Oggi
Editor-in-chiefUmberto Brindani
Former editors
  • Mario Pannunzio Arigo Benedetti
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherRCS Periodici
First issue1 June 1939;85 years ago(1939-06-01)
CompanyRCS media group
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian
Websiteoggi.it

History and profile

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Oggiwas established in Milan[1]in June 1939.[2][3]The magazine was modelled on the American magazineLife.[4]The early editors wereMario Pannunzioand Arigo Benedetti.[2]It was closed down in 1942 due to pressure from Fascists.

The magazine was restarted in July 1945.[5][6]From its restart in 1945 to 1956 the magazine was edited by Edilio Rusconi.[6][7]Pino Belleri and Vittorio Buttafava are among the formereditors-in-chiefof the weekly.[5][8]

Oggiis owned by theRCS media group[9]and is published weekly by RCS Periodici, a subsidiary of the group.[10]The magazine is edited by Umberto Brindani.[11]

At the beginning of the 1950sOggihad amonarchistpolitical stance[12]and targeted people from all social classes.[13]The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which publishedLady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.[14]

Circulation

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Oggiwas one of the most read magazines in Italy with a circulation of 760,000 copies in the late 1940s.[15]The magazine sold 450,000–500,000 copies in the period 1952–1953.[12]In the mid-1960s the circulation of the magazine was 699,000 copies.[16]By 1968 the magazine sold 848,000 copies.[16]Its circulation rose to 950,000 copies in 1970.[17]

The weekly had a circulation of 550,740 copies in 1984.[18]It rose to 728,533 copies between September 1993 and August 1994.[19]

In 2001Oggihad a circulation of 748,000 copies.[20]From December 2002 to November 2003 the average circulation of the magazine was 708,940 copies.[21]Its circulation fell to 675,000 copies in 2004.[22]The 2007 circulation of the magazine was 623,679 copies.[23][24]In 2010 the magazine had a circulation of 511,539 copies.[10]Its circulation during the first half of 2013 was 66,045 copies.[25]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"The most important Italian magazines".Life in Italy.Retrieved10 August2014.
  2. ^abIgnazio Weiss (May 1960). "The Illustrated Newsweeklies in Italy".International Communication Gazette.6(2): 169–179.doi:10.1177/001654926000600207.S2CID144855215.
  3. ^Antonio Ciaglia; Marco Mazzoni (2014). "Pop-politics in times of crisis: The Italian tabloid press during Mario Monti's government".European Journal of Communication.29(4): 449–464.doi:10.1177/0267323114529535.S2CID144183208.
  4. ^Stephen Gundle(Summer 2002). "Hollywood Glamour and Mass Consumption in Postwar Italy".Journal of Cold War Studies.4(3): 95–118.doi:10.1162/152039702320201085.ISSN1520-3972.S2CID57562417.
  5. ^ab"Science News? Overview of Science Reporting in the EU"(PDF).EU.2007.Retrieved5 October2013.
  6. ^abDavid Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007).Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War.Indiana University Press.p. 111.ISBN978-0-253-21948-0.
  7. ^"Edilio Rusconi".Brand Milano.Archived fromthe originalon 19 February 2015.Retrieved26 April2015.
  8. ^J. H. Schacht (March 1970). "Italian Weekly Magazines Bloom Wildly but Need Pruning".Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.47(1): 138–141.doi:10.1177/107769907004700119.S2CID144061856.
  9. ^Marco Mazzoni; Antonio Ciaglia (2013). "How Italian politics goes popular: Evidence from an empirical analysis of gossip magazines and TV shows".International Journal of Cultural Studies.17(4): 381–398.doi:10.1177/1367877913496199.S2CID153639453.
  10. ^ab"World Magazine Trends 2010/2011"(PDF).FIPP.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2 April 2015.Retrieved2 April2015.
  11. ^RCS Media Group website
  12. ^abMitchell V. Charnley (September 1953). "The Rise of the Weekly Magazine in Italy".Journalism Quarterly.30(4): 477.doi:10.1177/107769905303000405.S2CID191530801.
  13. ^Jonathan Dunnage (2022). "Sicilian Bandits and the Italian state: Narratives about Crime and (in)Security in the Post-War Italian Press, 1948 – 1950".Cultural and Social History.19(2): 188.doi:10.1080/14780038.2021.2002500.S2CID244294027.
  14. ^Andrew Whittaker (2010).Italy: Be Fluent in Italian Life and Culture.Thorogood Publishing. p. 225.ISBN978-1-85418-628-7.
  15. ^Luisa Cigognetti; Lorenza Servetti (1996). "'On her side': female images in Italian cinema and the popular press, 1945–1955 ".Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.16(4): 556.doi:10.1080/01439689600260541.
  16. ^abLaura 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.S2CID157614168.
  17. ^"The Press: Women, Not Girls".Time.18 January 1971.Retrieved17 February2015.
  18. ^Maria Teresa Crisci."Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines"(PDF).The Print and Digital Research Forum.Retrieved14 April2015.
  19. ^"Top paid-circulation consumer magazines".Ad Age.17 April 1995.Retrieved15 March2015.
  20. ^"Top 50 General Interest magazines worldwide (by circulation)"(PDF).Magazine.com.Retrieved17 January2015.
  21. ^"Rcs Mediagroup"(PDF).Borsa Italiana.12 March 2004.Retrieved26 April2015.
  22. ^"European Publishing Monitor. Italy"(PDF).Turku School of Economics and KEA.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 11 April 2015.Retrieved5 April2015.
  23. ^Anne Austin; et al. (2008)."Western Europe Market and Media Fact"(PDF).Zenith Optimedia.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 5 February 2015.Retrieved10 April2015.
  24. ^"Dati ADS (tirature e vendite)".Fotografi(in Italian). Archived fromthe originalon 24 April 2015.Retrieved26 April2015.
  25. ^"List of represented titles. Magazines"(PDF).Publicitas International AG.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 30 October 2014.Retrieved29 October2014.
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