Editor-in-chief | Umberto Brindani |
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Categories | News magazine |
Frequency | Weekly |
Publisher | RCS Periodici |
First issue | 1 June 1939 |
Company | RCS media group |
Country | Italy |
Based in | Milan |
Language | Italian |
Website |
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Oggi ( Italian: Today) is an Italian weekly news magazine published in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1939 it is one of the oldest magazines in the country.
Oggi was established in Milan [1] in June 1939. [2] [3] The magazine was modelled on the American magazine Life. [4] The early editors were Mario Pannunzio and Arigo Benedetti. [2] It was closed down in 1942 due to pressure from Fascists.
The magazine was restarted in July 1945. [5] [6] From its restart in 1945 to 1956 the magazine was edited by Edilio Rusconi. [6] [7] Pino Belleri and Vittorio Buttafava are among the former editors-in-chief of the weekly. [5] [8]
Oggi is owned by the RCS media group [9] and is published weekly by RCS Periodici, a subsidiary of the group. [10] The magazine is edited by Umberto Brindani. [11]
At the beginning of the 1950s Oggi had a monarchist political stance [12] and targeted people from all social classes. [13] The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997. [14]
Oggi was one of the most read magazines in Italy with a circulation of 760,000 copies in the late 1940s. [15] The magazine sold 450,000–500,000 copies in the period 1952–1953. [12] In the mid-1960s the circulation of the magazine was 699,000 copies. [16] By 1968 the magazine sold 848,000 copies. [16] Its circulation rose to 950,000 copies in 1970. [17]
The weekly had a circulation of 550,740 copies in 1984. [18] It rose to 728,533 copies between September 1993 and August 1994. [19]
In 2001 Oggi had a circulation of 748,000 copies. [20] From December 2002 to November 2003 the average circulation of the magazine was 708,940 copies. [21] Its circulation fell to 675,000 copies in 2004. [22] The 2007 circulation of the magazine was 623,679 copies. [23] [24] In 2010 the magazine had a circulation of 511,539 copies. [10] Its circulation during the first half of 2013 was 66,045 copies. [25]