Oggi (magazine)
Oggi (Italian: Today) is an Italian weekly news magazine published in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1939 it is one of the oldest magazines in the country. History and profileOggi was established in Milan[1] in June 1939.[2][3] The magazine was modelled on the American magazine Life.[4] The early editors were Mario Pannunzio and Arigo Benedetti.[2] It was closed down in 1942 due to pressure from Fascists. The magazine was restarted in July 1945.[5][6] From its restart in 1945 to 1956 the magazine was edited by Edilio Rusconi.[6][7] Pino Belleri and Vittorio Buttafava are among the former editors-in-chief of the weekly.[5][8] Oggi is owned by the RCS media group[9] and is published weekly by RCS Periodici, a subsidiary of the group.[10] The magazine is edited by Umberto Brindani.[11] At the beginning of the 1950s Oggi had a monarchist political stance[12] and targeted people from all social classes.[13] The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.[14] CirculationOggi was one of the most read magazines in Italy with a circulation of 760,000 copies in the late 1940s.[15] The magazine sold 450,000–500,000 copies in the period 1952–1953.[12] In the mid-1960s the circulation of the magazine was 699,000 copies.[16] By 1968 the magazine sold 848,000 copies.[16] Its circulation rose to 950,000 copies in 1970.[17] The weekly had a circulation of 550,740 copies in 1984.[18] It rose to 728,533 copies between September 1993 and August 1994.[19] In 2001 Oggi had a circulation of 748,000 copies.[20] From December 2002 to November 2003 the average circulation of the magazine was 708,940 copies.[21] Its circulation fell to 675,000 copies in 2004.[22] The 2007 circulation of the magazine was 623,679 copies.[23][24] In 2010 the magazine had a circulation of 511,539 copies.[10] Its circulation during the first half of 2013 was 66,045 copies.[25] See alsoReferences
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