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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Poligrafici Editoriale |
| Founded | April 21, 1956 |
| Political alignment | Centre-left |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Milan, Italy |
| Circulation | 69,063 [1] |
| Official website | ilgiorno.it |
Il Giorno is an Italian national newspaper based in Milan, Italy, with numerous local editions in Lombardy.
Founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca in 1956, with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge the newspaper Corriere della Sera. But later, due to the financial crisis, Enrico Mattei with the state-owned oil company Eni buys part of the publishing company.
In 1959, Cino Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the new editor of the newspaper.
Due to the 1973 oil crisis and the competition of the new newspaper la Repubblica, Il Giorno has dropped many readers.
In 1997 Eni sold the newspaper to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also own two others Italian newspapers (il Resto del Carlino and La Nazione) under the Quotidiano Nazionale network.
In 2000 switched to Tabloid format and in 2009 publish a new sports supplement.
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