Il Messaggero

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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Il Messaggero SpA
Editor Roberto Napoletano
Founded 1878
Political allegiance Centrism
Headquarters Rome, Italy
Circulation 230,697 (2005) [1]

Website: www.ilmessaggero.it

Il Messaggero is an Italian newspaper based in Rome. It was founded on 1878. It is owned by the Caltagirone Group, through the company "Il Messaggero SpA", and it includes Azzurra Caltagirone, partner of centre-right leader Pierferdinando Casini, in its board. Its current editor-in-chief is Roberto Napoletano.

It is the most popular daily newspaper in Rome and central Italy; however, it does not sell as many in the rest of the country.

It provides different local versions for any province of Lazio, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Molise.

The average daily circulation of the newspaper in February 2005 was 300,000 copies.

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  1. ^ 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).
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