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Gente
CategoriesCurrent affairs magazine
Gossip magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation332,340 (2010)
FounderEdilio Rusconi
Founded1957; 67 years ago (1957)
Company Hearst Magazines
CountryItaly
Based in Milan
Language Italian
Website Gente

Gente ( Italian: People) [1] is a popular and long-running Italian weekly current affairs [2] and celebrity gossip magazine.

History and profile

Gente was launched in Milan in 1957. [1] Its founder and publisher was Edilio Rusconi, [3] an Italian journalist, writer, publisher and film producer. [4] The magazine was the flagship of Rusconi Group. [5] The magazine was part of Rusconi Group until 1999 when the Group was acquired by Hachette Filipacchi Médias, a subsidiary of Lagardère SCA. [6]

The magazine was published by Hachette Rusconi under the Hachette Filipacchi Médias ownership. [7] [8] It was owned by Hachette Filipacchi Médias [9] until 2011 when it was acquired by Hearst Magazines. [10] [11] It is published on a weekly basis. [7] [12]

Circulation

In 1964 the circulation of Gente was 331,000 copies which rose to 390,000 copies in 1968. [13]

Gente had a circulation of 667,553 copies in 1984. [14] It rose to 769,185 copies between September 1993 and August 1994. [15] In 2000 the magazine had a circulation of 690,000 copies. [16] The 2004 circulation of the magazine was 573,000 copies. [17] It was 411,425 copies in 2007. [18] [19] Its circulation was 332,340 copies in 2010. [7]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Nico Pitrelli; Federica Manzoli; Barbara Montolli (2006). "Science in advertising: uses and consumptions in the Italian press". Public Understanding of Science. 15 (2): 207–220. doi: 10.1177/0963662506061126. S2CID  145589253.
  3. ^ Gaetana Marrone, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. New York; London: Routledge. p. 980. ISBN  978-1-57958-390-3.
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  8. ^ Maria Lombardo, ed. (2009). Giornali d'Europa. Catania: editpress. p. 33. ISBN  978-88-89726-30-3.
  9. ^ Marco Mazzoni; Antonio Ciaglia (2013). "How Italian politics goes popular: Evidence from an empirical analysis of gossip magazines and TV shows". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 17 (4): 381–398. doi: 10.1177/1367877913496199. S2CID  153639453.
  10. ^ "French Lagardere sells international magazines to Hearst". Publicitas. 31 January 2011. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  11. ^ Daniele Lepido (6 July 2011). "Il gruppo Hearst fa shopping nei periodici italiani". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  12. ^ Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson, eds. (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 355. ISBN  978-0-8108-6428-3.
  13. ^ Laura Ciglioni (2017). "Italian Public Opinion in the Atomic Age: Mass-market Magazines Facing Nuclear Issues (1963–1967)". Cold War History. 17 (3): 205–221. doi: 10.1080/14682745.2017.1291633. S2CID  157614168.
  14. ^ Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  15. ^ "Top paid-circulation consumer magazines". Ad Age. 17 April 1995. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Top 50 General Interest magazines worldwide (by circulation)" (PDF). Magazine.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  17. ^ "European Publishing Monitor. Italy" (PDF). Turku School of Economics and KEA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  18. ^ "Dati ADS (tirature e vendite)". Fotografi (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  19. ^ Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market and Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

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