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L'espresso

l'Espresso
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l'Espresso, 6 December 2007
Editor Luigi Vicinanza ()
Former editors Arrigo Benedetti, Eugenio Scalfari, Daniela Hamaui, Bruno Manfellotto
Categories Newsmagazine
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 195,787 (June 2014)
Year founded 1955; 62 years ago (1955)
Company Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso
Country Italy
Based in Rome
Language Italian
Website espresso.repubblica.it

L'espresso, more correctly written l'Espresso, is an Italian weekly news magazine. It is one of the two most prominent Italian weeklies; the other is Panorama.

One of Italy's foremost newsmagazines, l'Espresso was founded as a weekly magazine in Rome, in October 1955, by the N.E.R. (Nuove Edizioni Romane) publishing house of Carlo Caracciolo and the progressive industrialist Adriano Olivetti, manufacturer of Olivetti typewriters. Its chief editors were Arrigo Benedetti and Eugenio Scalfari.

l'Espresso was characterized from the beginning by aggressive investigative journalism strongly focused on corruption and clientelism within the Christian Democracy. In the 1950s, it uncovered major scandals in the health and housing industries. This made the main shareholder Olivetti unpopular with the ministries and large companies that were the primary customers of his main business. In 1956, with the magazine losing money, Olivetti gave a majority of shares to Caracciolo.De Benedetti and Scalfari entered as major shareholders as well.

The experienced De Benedetti, who had directed the newsmagazine L'Europeo (1945–54), was editor-in-chief until 1963, when he handed the position over to Scalfari. At the time the average circulation reached 70,000 copies. In 1968, Scalfari was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972) and handed over editorship to Gianni Corbi ().

The magazine's original format was that of large newspaper; it was converted into a small glossy format in 1974. In 1965, it introduced colour printing for photos, text, and adverts. In 1975, the publishing company N.E.R. changed its corporate title to Editoriale L'Espresso; circulation at the time exceeded 300,000 copies. In January 1976, the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso also launched the daily newspaper La Repubblica, with Eugenio Scalfari as editor-in-chief, in a joint venture with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.


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