Panorama (magazine) explained

Previous Editor:Ezio Mauro
Frequency:Weekly
Circulation:80,318 (May 2021)
Category:News magazine
Company:Panorama S.r.l (La VeritĂ  Group)
Publisher:Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Country:Italy
Based:Milan
Language:Italian
Issn:0553-1098

Panorama is a weekly Italian-language news magazine published in Italy and based in Milan.[1]

History and overview

Panorama was founded in Milan in 1939.[2] The magazine was temporarily closed by the Fascist rule in December 1940 due to the publication of the translated texts by Ada Prospero.[3] It was relaunched by Italian publisher Arnoldo Mondadori in cooperation with the American Time Inc. group in Milan in October 1962.[4] [5] [6]

The magazine came out biweekly in the initial period.[3]

Ownership

The magazine is owned and published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore,[5] [7] the largest Italian publishing house.[8] The company is controlled by Fininvest, a financial holding company controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi,[2] [5] a former Prime Minister of Italy. Although American group Time-Life company also owned the magazine, later it left the magazine due to low circulation levels.[6]

Circulation

Panorama had a circulation of 350,429 copies in 1984.[9] The circulation of the magazine was 530,031 copies between September 1993 and August 1994.[10] In 2000 it rose to 566,000 copies.[11] The 2003 circulation of the weekly was 525,000 copies.[4] Its circulation was 514,000 copies in 2004.[12] It was the third best-selling news magazine in Italy in 2007[13] with a circulation of 479,297 copies.[14] The circulation of the magazine was 511,349 copies in 2010.[15] The magazine had a circulation of 303,422 copies in June 2013.[16] The magazine had a circulation of 80,318 copies and sold 47,425 copies in May 2021.[17]

Management and staff

Maurizio Belpietro is the magazine's director, succeeding Giorgio Mulè and Pietro Calabrese. A former director of the magazine, Carlo Rossella, became a director of Medusa Film.

Contributors

Adolfo Battaglia, a veteran journalist and politician, is among the former contributors of Panorama.[18]

The current contributors of Panorama include:

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kim Kavin. The Everything Travel Guide to Italy: A complete guide to Venice, Florence, Rome, and Capri - and all the breathtaking places in between. 14 December 2013. 18 February 2010. Everything Books. 978-1-4405-0180-7. 404.
  2. Web site: The most important Italian magazines. Life in Italy. 10 August 2014.
  3. Rita Filanti . Self-Censorship and Fascism. Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 2018. 38. 26496373. 157.
  4. News: Influential weeklies. 4 October 2013. BBC.
  5. News: The press in Italy. 2 November 2014. BBC. 31 October 2006.
  6. Book: Gino Moliterno. Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. 2005. Routledge. London and New York. 0-203-74849-2. 11 January 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150109142838/http://sociology.sunimc.net/htmledit/uploadfile/system/20100921/20100921021511436.pdf. 9 January 2015. dmy-all.
  7. News: Eric Lyman. Italian publisher unveils magazine dedicated to Pope Francis. 2 November 2014. National Catholic Reporter. 5 March 2014. Rome.
  8. Yoo Hyae Huh. Social Responsibility of the Media: The Italian Media under Berlusconi. The Mediterranean Review. 2007. 1. 2. 3 December 2014.
  9. Web site: Maria Teresa Crisci. Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines. The Print and Digital Research Forum. 14 April 2015.
  10. Web site: Top paid-circulation consumer magazines. Ad Age. 15 March 2015. 17 April 1995.
  11. Web site: Top 50 General Interest magazines worldwide (by circulation). Magazine.com. 17 January 2015.
  12. Web site: European Publishing Monitor. Italy. Turku School of Economics and KEA. 7 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150411085843/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf. 11 April 2015. dead.
  13. Web site: Anne Austin. etal. Western Europe Market and Media Fact. Zenith Optimedia. 10 April 2015. 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20150205131709/http://conan.lib.muohio.edu/ebooks/Western_Europe_Market_MediaFact_2008/Western%20Europe%20Market%20%26%20MediaFact%202008.pdf. 5 February 2015. dead.
  14. Web site: Dati ADS (tirature e vendite). Fotografi. 26 April 2015. it. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424142426/http://www.fotografi.org/periodici_tirature.htm#SETTIMANALI. 24 April 2015. dmy-all.
  15. Web site: World Magazine Trends 2010/2011. FIPP. 2 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165145/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Europe.pdf. 2 April 2015. dead.
  16. http://www.primaonline.it/2013/08/26/170185/ Data
  17. http://www.primaonline.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DMS_Settimanali_52021_20210707_114851.xls Circulation data
  18. News: Autore: Adolfo Battaglia. First Online. Italian. 12 January 2022.