Il Corriere della Sera

Corriere della Sera

Front page on 15 July 2009
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Rizzoli
Editor	Luciano Fontana
Founded	15 March 1876
Political alignment	Liberalism, Centrism
Language	Italian
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Circulation	410.242 (December 2015)
Sister newspapers	La Gazzetta dello Sport
ISSN	1120-4982
Website	www.corriere.it

The Corriere della Sera (Italian pronunciation: [korˈrjɛːre ˈdella ˈseːra]; English: Evening Courier) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.

First published on 5 March 1876, Corriere della Sera is one of Italy's oldest newspapers. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini, 1900-1925. He was a strong opponent of Socialism, of clericalism, and of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti who was willing to compromise with those forces. Albertini's opposition to the Fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him 1925.

Today its main competitors are Rome's la Repubblica and Turin's La Stampa.

Corriere della Sera was first published on Sunday 5 March 1876 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In 1899 the paper began to offer a weekly illustrated supplement, Domenica del Corriere.

In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of Luigi Albertini, Corriere della Sera became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its importance and influence into the present century. It was Corriere della Sera which introduced comics in Italy in 1908 through a supplement for children, namely Corriere dei piccoli.

The newspaper's headquarters has been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as "the Via Solferino newspaper" after the street where it is still located. As the name indicates, it was originally an evening paper.

Mario Borsa, a militant anti-fascist, was appointed the editor-in-chief of Corriere della Sera in May 1945. He was fired because of his political leanings in August 1946 and was replaced by Guglielmo Emanuel, a right-wing journalist, in the post. Emanuel served in the post until 1952.