Il Fatto Quotidiano
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 Il Fatto Quotidiano |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | compact |
| Owner | Editoriale Il Fatto SpA |
| Editor | Antonio Padellaro |
| Founded | 23 September 2009 |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Via Orazio, 10 Rome, Italy |
| Circulation | 136.000 (October 11, 2009)[1] |
| Official website | www.ilfattoquotidiano.it |
Il Fatto Quotidiano (English: The Daily Fact) is an Italian daily newspaper owned by Editoriale Il Fatto SpA. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and has been edited by Antonio Padellaro since then.
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[edit] History
In late 2008, Marco Travaglio was asked by fellow journalist Massimo Fini to advertise the latter's newly founded magazine, La Voce del Ribelle ("The Rebel's Voice"), on the former's blog, voglioscendere.it, with the objective of gathering "a few hundred subscriptions". Thousands of people answered, allowing Fini's magazine to succeed.[2] Because of this success, Travaglio started considering the idea of using his blog to launch a new independent newspaper, with no public funding, which in Italy depends on political support from a number of MPs.[2]
The intention of publishing a new national newspaper was announced by Marco Travaglio on his blog, voglioscendere.it on June 1, 2009[3]. The title Il Fatto Quotidiano was chosen as a homage to journalist Enzo Biagi[3], who was purged from state television RAI at prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's request, and whose daily ten-minute prime-time news commentary on Rai Uno, named Il Fatto, was removed from programming.
In June 2009, l'Antefatto[4], a promotional website, was set up containing information about subscription and the development of the project[3].
The publisher stated he would not use the Italian state funding to run the newspaper, for which a news paper needs support from some MPs, but only money coming from sales and fair advertisement[3].
The first issue, printed in 100,000 copies in addition to 32,000 subscriptions, was already sold out before 8:00 AM on September 23, even though distribution was limited to the largest cities. As a consequence, the newspaper announced it would immediately double the number of copies and publish the first issue, free of charge, on the Internet[5][6].
[edit] Ownership
Il Fatto Quotidiano is published by Editoriale Il Fatto SpA, an Italian joint stock company. The company regulation states that the 70% of the shares can be owned by entrepreneurs, but each of them can't own more than 16% of the share capital, estimated in 600,000 euros[7]. The remaining 30% of the shares is owned by the newspaper columnists[7]. Therefore, no important choice can be made without the consent of the columnists as a 70% majority + 1 is needed to carry out decisions about the newspaper policy or editor election[7]. The managing director is Giorgio Poidomani.
[edit] Format and circulation
Il Fatto Quotidiano is printed in the compact format and full colour. It's distributed in Italy either by post and over 25,000 newsagents in the major Italian towns and regions[8][9]. A significant fraction of the readership, about one fifth[1], is made out of subscriptions to the PDF version of the newspaper.
[edit] Editors
- Antonio Padellaro (2009-present)
[edit] Columnists
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Fatto's facts, by Antonio Padellaro (Italian)
- ^ a b La Voce del Ribelle, a year later, by Marco Travaglio on his blog.
- ^ a b c d Voglioscendere.it - Marco Travaglio - Abbonatevi al Fatto (Italian)
- ^ Presentazione de "L'Antefatto" (Italian)
- ^ The first issue of Il Fatto', by Marco Travaglio.
- ^ First issue of Il Fatto.
- ^ a b c Giorgio Poidomani, Senza Padroni in Il Fatto Quotidiano page 22 published on 23rd September 2009 (Italian)
- ^ Il Fatto Quotidiano: distribuzione in citta' e pronvincie (Italian)
- ^ Dove arriva "Il Fatto" e perche' (Italian)
[edit] External links
- Official Website (Italian)
- Antefatto.it (Italian)
