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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | compact |
| Owner | Editoriale Il Fatto |
| Editor | Antonio Padellaro |
| Founded | 23 September 2009 |
| Language | Italian |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Circulation | 113,000 (70,000 copies sold daily, plus 43,000 subscriptions - 25 December 2009)[1] |
| Official website | www.ilfattoquotidiano.it |
il Fatto Quotidiano is an Italian daily newspaper owned by Editoriale Il Fatto SpA. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and has been edited by Antonio Padellaro since then.
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In late 2008, Marco Travaglio was asked by fellow journalist Massimo Fini to advertise the latter's newly founded magazine, La Voce del Ribelle ("The Rebel's Voice"), on the former's blog, voglioscendere.it, with the objective of gathering "a few hundred subscriptions". Thousands of people answered, allowing Fini's magazine to succeed.[2] Because of this success, Travaglio started considering the idea of using his blog to launch a new independent newspaper, with no public funding, which in Italy depends on political support from a number of MPs.[2]
The intention of publishing a new national newspaper was announced by Marco Travaglio on his blog, voglioscendere.it on 1 June 2009.[3] The title il Fatto Quotidiano was chosen as a homage to journalist Enzo Biagi,[3] who was purged from state television RAI at prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's request, and whose daily ten-minute prime-time news commentary on Rai Uno, named Il Fatto, was removed from programming. The newspaper could not just be named "Il Fatto" because RAI, the italian public broadcast vetoed it mentioning name ownership, even if its very management was the one who put it off the air.
In June 2009, l'Antefatto,[4] a promotional website, was set up containing information about subscription and the development of the project.[3]
The publisher stated he would not use the Italian state funding to run the newspaper, for which a news paper needs support from some MPs, but only money coming from sales and fair advertisement.[3]
The first issue, printed in 100,000 copies in addition to 32,000 subscriptions, was already sold out before 8:00 AM on 23 September, even though distribution was limited to the largest cities. As a consequence, the newspaper announced it would immediately double the number of copies and publish the first issue, free of charge, on the Internet.[5][6]
il Fatto Quotidiano is published by Editoriale Il Fatto SpA, an Italian joint stock company. The company regulation states that up to 70% of the shares can be owned by entrepreneurs, but no one of them can own more than 16% of the share capital, estimated in 600,000 euros.[7] The remaining 30% of the shares is owned by the newspaper columnists.[7] Therefore, no important choice can be made without the consent of the columnists as a 70% majority + 1 is needed to carry out decisions about the newspaper policy or editor election.[7] The managing director is Giorgio Poidomani.
il Fatto Quotidiano is printed in the compact format and full colour. It's distributed in Italy either by post and over 25,000 newsagents in the major Italian towns and regions.[8][9] A significant fraction of the readership, about one fifth,[1] is made out of subscriptions to the PDF version of the newspaper.
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