Il Messaggero
Il Messaggero is a major Italian daily newspaper based in Rome, with a strong readership in the capital and central Italy. Aimed at a broad general audience, it covers national and international news, politics, economics, and culture, with a generally centrist orientation. It is one of the most established daily papers in the region.
Il Messaggero at a glance
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1878
- Owner
- Caltagirone Editore
- Published from
- Rome
- Website
- ilmessaggero.it ↗
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How Crosswire groups Il Messaggero
Crosswire groups Il Messaggero as Centrist for comparisons within Italy's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Italy, Il Fatto Quotidiano is listed as Left-leaning, while Il Giornale is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Il Messaggero beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Il Messaggero sits in Italy's press
Il Messaggero was founded in 1878, is published from Rome and is owned by Caltagirone Editore. It is one of 10 outlets tracked in Italy, and one of 7 daily newspapers among them — the others being Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Il Giornale, La Gazzetta dello Sport and Il Fatto Quotidiano. By outlets tracked, Italy ranks fourth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 109 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Il Messaggero outside Italy, starting with Southern Europe, are Cyprus Mail (Cyprus), Delo (Slovenia), Jutarnji list (Croatia) and Dnevni avaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Opening one of them beside Il Messaggero is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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