La Stampa
La Stampa is a major Italian daily newspaper based in Turin and one of the country's oldest papers. Generally regarded as centrist in orientation, it provides coverage of national and international news, politics, economics, and culture for a broad readership. The paper combines its print edition with an established online news platform.
La Stampa at a glance
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Southern Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1867
- Published from
- Turin
- Website
- lastampa.it ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Stampa
Crosswire groups La Stampa 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 La Stampa beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Stampa sits in Italy's press
La Stampa was founded in 1867 and is published from Turin. 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, Il Messaggero, 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 La Stampa outside Italy, starting with Southern Europe, are Kathimerini (Greece), Times of Malta (Malta), Cyprus Mail (Cyprus) and Delo (Slovenia). Opening one of them beside La Stampa is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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