L'Unità
| L'Unità | |
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| description | daily newspaper |
| language | Italian |
| publishing company | Nuova Iniziativa Editoriale SpA |
| First edition | February 12, 1924 |
| attitude | 3rd June 2017 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Sold edition | 147,121 copies |
| (December 2011) | |
| Widespread edition | 40,641 copies |
| Editor-in-chief | Erasmo D'Angelis |
| Web link | www.unita.it |
L'Unità [luniˈta] was an Italian daily newspaper. It was founded in 1924 by Antonio Gramsci and was the official party organ of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI) until 1991 .
After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini on October 31, 1926, the newspaper was banned together with the L'Avanti of the Italian Socialist Party , but appeared underground until the liberation of Italy in 1945 . In the 1980s, L'Unità had a daily circulation of 239,000 copies, and in 1989 the later Prime Minister of Italy, Massimo D'Alema , became director of the newspaper. In 1987, after 59 years of existence, the newspaper, which is close to the Communists, included a stock exchange section with share and foreign exchange rates in the newspaper for the first time.
On July 28, 2000, L'Unità ceased production for financial reasons, but reappeared on March 28, 2001 with a reduced edition (62,000 copies in February 2005). The print edition was discontinued from August 1, 2014 until the publication was resumed on June 30, 2015. In June 2017, publication was finally discontinued.
