La Stampa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Front page, 2006-12-10
Type	National daily newspaper
Format	Berliner

Owner	Fiat Group
Publisher	Editrice La Stampa
Editor	Giulio Anselmi
Founded	1867
Political allegiance	Centre-Left
Language	Italian
Price	1.00 €
Headquarters	Via Marenco 32, Turin, Italy
Circulation	307,053 (2005) ^[1]
ISSN	1122-1763

Website: www.lastampa.it

La Stampa (literally “The Press”) is one of the best-known and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers, published in Turin and distributed in Italy and in other nations in Europe. It is currently owned by the Fiat Group.

It was founded in 1867 with the name Gazzetta Piemontese. In 1895 the newspaper was bought (and by then directed) by Alfredo Frassati, who gave it its current name and a national perspective. For criticising the 1924 murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti, he was forced to resign and sell the newspaper to Giovanni Agnelli.

It launched a website in 1999.

On February 1, 2006, it published the controversial Muhammad Drawings.

1 People
2 McDonald's lawsuit
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] People

Editors

Giulio Anselmi (Editor)
Massimo Gramellini (Vice-Editor)
Roberto Bellato (Vice-Editor)
Umberto La Rocca (Vice-Editor)
Federico Geremicca (Vice-Editor, Rome)

Columnist & Journalists

Massimo Gramellini (Columnist)
Barbara Spinelli (Columnist
Lucia Annunziata (Columnist))
Guido Ceronetti (Columnist)
Anna Mina Mazzini aka Mina (singer) (Columnist)
Maurizio Molinari (Journalist)
Stefania Miretti (Columnist)
Roberto Beccantini (Columnist)
Altiero Scicchitano (Columnist)

[edit] McDonald's lawsuit

In May of 2002, McDonald's sued La Stampa food critic and slow food adovcate Edoardo Raspelli over an unfavorable review La Stampa. "The ambience was mechanical, the potatoes were obscene and tasting of cardboard, and the bread poor. I found it alienating and vulgar." The chain seeks $25 million in damages.[2]

[edit] Notes

^ Data for average number of paid-for copies (Totale pagata) from the Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa (Ads) survey on 2005 newspapers sales in Italy [1] (Excel file).