Il Giornale
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| description | Italian newspaper |
| language | Italian |
| First edition | 1974 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 305,577 copies |
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| Widespread edition | 204,015 copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Alessandro Sallusti |
| editor | Società Europea di Edizioni |
| Web link | www.ilgiornale.it |
Il Giornale (in German Die Zeitung ) is an Italian daily newspaper based in Milan . It is owned by Paolo Berlusconi , brother of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi .
history
The daily newspaper was founded in 1974 by Indro Montanelli as Il Giornale Nuovo and is characterized by a strong, populist opposition to the political left. With the occurrence of financial difficulties in 1977, Montanelli accepted financial aid in the form of a 30 percent stake from Silvio Berlusconi , who was not yet active in politics at the time , and who thus became the newspaper's publisher . Until Berlusconi entered politics in December 1993, Montanelli was editor of the Giornale; later he founded the competing daily La Voce . In the 1990s Berlusconi held 82% of the daily newspaper's shares. As a result of the "Legge Mammi" media law passed in 1990, Silvio Berlusconi sold the newspaper to his brother Paolo Berlusconi in 1994 . The new director was Vittorio Feltri , a supporter of Berlusconi, who ran the newspaper until the end of 1997 and achieved a strong increase in circulation during this time. He later founded his own newspaper, Libero . Feltri briefly took over the management of the newspaper again in 2009/2010.
In 2010 Il Giornale was ranked eighth among the Italian national newspapers in terms of sales.
With the Saturday edition of June 11, 2016, the newspaper launched an eight-volume series of supplements to older books on the history of the Third Reich in the middle of the local election campaign, beginning with an edition of the Italian translation of the second volume of Volume 2, annotated by the historian Francesco Perfetti , published in 1937 and provided by Angelo Treves Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and a translation of William Shirer's rise and fall of the Third Reich .