La Repubblica
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| Type | National daily newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso |
| Editor | Mario Calabresi |
| Founded | 14 January 1976 |
| Political alignment |
Centre-left Cultural liberalism |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Circulation | 301,565 (May 2014) |
| ISSN | 0390-1076 |
| Website | repubblica.it |
la Repubblica (Italian pronunciation: [la reˈpubblika]; English: the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso led by Eugenio Scalfari and Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a radical leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance. It lately assumed a liberal position and a generally supporting view of Democrat Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
la Repubblica was founded by Eugenio Scalfari, also director of the weekly magazine L'Espresso, and Italian politician Barbara Spinelli in January 1976.
The publisher Carlo Caracciolo and Mondadori had invested 2.3 billion lire (half each, approximately €1.3 million) and a break-even point was calculated at 150,000 copies. Scalfari invited a few trusted colleagues: Gianni Rocca, then Giorgio Bocca, Sandro Viola, Mario Pirani, Miriam Mafai, Barbara Spinelli, Natalia Aspesi and Giuseppe Turani. The cartoons were the prerogative of Giorgio Forattini until 1999.
The newspaper first went on sale on 14 January 1976. It was presented as the first Italian tabloid with some sections such as sports and business intentionally left out. When it was founded, it was intended to be a "second newspaper", with only major news at the national level, to an audience that has already read a local newspaper. It was composed of 20 pages and was published from Tuesday to Sunday. The paper defined itself as a “giornale-partito” (meaning "newspaper-party") in its initial stage.
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