Il Fatto Quotidiano

il Fatto Quotidiano is an Italian daily newspaper owned by Editoriale Il Fatto SpA published in Rome, Italy. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and was edited by Antonio Padellaro until 2015, when Marco Travaglio became the editor.

Il Fatto Quotidiano
Front page of the first issue of the newspaper on 23 September 2009.
TypeDaily newspaper
Formatcompact
Owner(s)Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A
EditorMarco Travaglio
Founded23 September 2009
Political alignmentAnti-corruption
LanguageItalian
HeadquartersRome, Italy
Circulation39,396 (June 2015)
ISSN2037-089X
Websiteilfattoquotidiano.it

History

Late within 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.[1] Because of this success, Travaglio started considering the idea of using his blog to launch a new newspaper, independent from public funding.[1]

The intention of publishing a new national newspaper was announced by Marco Travaglio on his blog, voglioscendere.it on 1 June 2009.[2] The title il Fatto Quotidiano ("The Daily Fact") was chosen as a homage to journalist Enzo Biagi,[2] who was purged from state television RAI at prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's request, and whose hugely successful 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,[3] a promotional website, was set up containing information about subscription and the development of the project.[2]

The publisher stated he would not use the Italian state advertising and funding to run the newspaper but instead he would use only money from sales and market advertisements.[2]

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.[4][5]

Ownership

il Fatto Quotidiano is published by Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A., an Italian 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.[6] The remaining 30% of the shares is owned by the newspaper columnists.[6] 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.[6] The managing director is Giorgio Poidomani.

Format and circulation

il Fatto Quotidiano is printed in the compact format and full colour. It is distributed in Italy either by post and over 25,000 newsagents in the major Italian towns and regions.[7][8] A significant fraction of the readership, about one fifth,[9] is made out of subscriptions to the PDF version of the newspaper.

The circulation of il Fatto Quotidiano was 113,000 copies on 25 December 2009.[9] The paper had a circulation of 78,669 copies in 2010.[10]

Editors
  • Antonio Padellaro (2009–2015)
  • Marco Travaglio (2015–present)

Columnists

References
  1. La Voce del Ribelle, a year later, by Marco Travaglio on his blog.
  2. Voglioscendere.it – Marco Travaglio – Abbonatevi al Fatto (in Italian)
  3. "Presentazione de "L'Antefatto" {{in lang|it}}". Archived from the original on 30 August 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  4. The first issue of Il Fatto', Marco Travaglio.
  5. First issue of Il Fatto.
  6. Giorgio Poidomani, Senza Padroni in il Fatto Quotidiano page 22 published on 23 September 2009 (in Italian)
  7. "il Fatto Quotidiano: distribuzione in citta' e pronvincie {{in lang|it}}". Archived from the original on 23 September 2009. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
  8. Dove arriva "Il Fatto" e perché (in Italian)
  9. The Fatto's facts, by Antonio Padellaro (in Italian)
  10. "National Newspapers". International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
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