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 17,000 (as of 2007)
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 17,000 as of 2007.

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 Claudio Mésoniat.

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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