Figures in brackets are 2007 market share, taken from Agcom’s 2008 report:
Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso: owns Repubblica, wide holdings in localnewspaper market; the Espresso [weekly]; radio holdings and (minor) TV holdings (26.9%)
RCS Mediagroup: owns the Corriere della Sera and the Gazzetta dello Sport; specialist magazine holdings (26.8%)
Il Sole 24 Ore: eponymous newspaper and its associated offspring […]
I don’t normally agree with comic-turned-political-agent-provocateur Beppe Grillo, but I have to say that the three referendum proposals he’s announced under the banner “Libera informazione in libero stato” (Free information in a free country) are spot on. The proposals are to:
abolish the Ordine dei Giornalisti, a Fascist-era institution which journalists must be enrolled in;
abolish subsidies […]
The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications today released a report on the appointment of the BBC Chairman, written in the well-tempered amber prose typical of such committees. Some recommendations I share: if the government adds a member to the short-list it is given, it should be publicly justified. Some recommendations I disagree with. […]
Following a tip [thanks Costanza], I found a wonderful transcript of an episode of Report on the state funding of Italian newspapers. The state spends 667 million euros a year to subsidize newspapers; the intention behind the subsidies was originally to help struggling ‘newspapers of ideas’. Instead, with a 1987 law permitting two deputies to […]
