Panorama (magazine)
Panorama is an Italian news magazine with a focus on politics and current affairs. The magazine is published by the Italian book publisher Mondadori and with a circulation of 503,000 copies is one of the most important magazines in Italy . Panorama is an estimated readership of approximately 2,908,000.
Current events from politics, society and economy are dealt with. The magazine is considered a source of well-researched background information on the most important national and international events in Italy.
The magazine and its articles should be positioned in the political spectrum in the center-right area. This is not surprising as the Berlusconi family own the Mondadori publishing house. Nevertheless, Panorama has published articles in The Economist in its economic section , which sometimes sharply criticized Silvio Berlusconi's policies.
history
Panorama was founded in 1962 as a monthly magazine and expanded into a weekly magazine on May 18, 1967. The publisher's attempt to make the magazine the most important news magazine (based on the layout of Der Spiegel or the French L'Express ) on a national basis turned out to be a success in view of the increasing number of readers.
Today, Panorama is managed by Giorgio Mulè .
Role in Iraq war
In 2002 it was Panorama magazine that was instrumental in creating the mood for an invasion of Iraq under Saddam Hussein . In the September 12, 2002 edition, a headline reads La guerra è cominciata ( The war has begun ). Pino Buongiorno's article alleged that the Iraqi government sourced 500 kilograms of weapons- grade uranium from the former Soviet Union .
In October of the same year, the reporter for the magazine Elisabetta Burba was sold the Yellowcake documents by Rocco Martino . These documents, which were supposed to prove that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Niger , turned out to be a fake. It was Elisabetta Burba who forwarded the documents to the US Embassy in Rome.
Well-known collaborators and authors
- Alessandra Borghese , Vatican expert