La Gazzetta dello Sport

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La Gazzetta dello Sport
The front-page story on 14 July 2006 covered the 2006 Serie A scandal
Type	National daily sports newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner
Publisher	Rcs MediaGroup
Editor	Carlo Verdelli
Founded	3 aprile 1896
Language	Italian
Price	1.00 € (Saturdays 1.50 €)
Headquarters	Via Solferino, 28, Milano, Italy
Circulation	335,284 (2005) Mondays: 436,563 (2005) ^[1]
ISSN	1120-5067

Website: gazzetta.it

La Gazzetta dello Sport is an Italian newspaper dedicated to coverage of various sports. It was first published on 3 April 1896, allowing it to cover the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens. However, its role extends beyond news reporting and features, to direct involvement in major events, including (since 1909) organisation of the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) cycling stage race.

The newspaper, published on distinctive pink paper, sells over 400,000 copies daily (more on Mondays when readers want to catch up on the weekend's events), and can claim a readership in excess of three million. A sports magazine, Sportweek, is sold with the newspaper on Saturdays.

Although a wide range of sports are covered in the newspaper, football is given by far the majority of the coverage. With some 24-28 pages out of 40 devoted to the sport on a daily basis, much of the journalism is speculative and sensationalist rather than the pure reporting of matches. The largest and best supported teams in Italy, and especially the Milan teams of A.C. Milan and Internazionale, dominate the coverage. This focus is partly due the fact that it is published in Milan. Other sports papers in Italy do the same with teams out of their city, such as how Tuttosport has larger coverage of Torino-based sides and Il Corriere dello Sport has Rome-based teams at the fore.

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^ Data for average number of paid-for copies (Totale pagata) from the Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa (Ads) survey on 2005 newspapers sales in Italy [1] (Excel file).