Giornale del Popolo

Giornale del Popolo
(English: People's Newspaper)
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano (51%)
Publisher of Corriere del Ticino (49%)
Editor-in-chief Claudio Mésoniat
Founded 1927 (1927)
Political alignment Catholic
Language Italian
Headquarters Lugano, Switzerland
Circulation 10,000 (as of 2018)
ISSN 1660-9662
OCLC number 173873718
Website gdp.ch (in Italian)

The Giornale del Popolo is a regional daily newspaper published in Lugano, Switzerland. The Italian-language newspaper had a distribution of 10,000 as of 2018.

History and profile

Giornale del Popolo was established by the Bishopric in 1927.[1] It is a Catholic daily of the canton.[1] In the early 1990s the paper had a circulation of 23,000 copies.[1]

Since 2004 49 percent of the newspaper has been owned by the publisher of Corriere del Ticino, with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lugano retaining a majority share of 51 percent. The editor-in-chief of Giornale del Popolo is Alessandra Zumthor. On May 17, 2018 the bishop of Lugano interrupted the publication of the newspaper due to lack of money.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pierre Musso; Philippe Souêtre; Lionel Levasseur (1995). The Printed Press and Television in the Regions of Europe. Council of Europe. p. 105. ISBN 978-92-871-2807-2. Retrieved 27 December 2014.


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