Alto Adige (newspaper)

The Alto Adige (Italian for South Tyrol) is the most widely read Italian language daily newspaper in South Tyrol. Seat of the editorial department is Trent. In Trentino and the province of Belluno head leaves appear with the respective name Trentino and Corriere delle Alpi.

General

By the year 2000, the three local editions for South Tyrol, Trentino and the province of Belluno were under the name Alto Adige - sold Corriere delle Alpi. Since the prepared by the editorial staff at Trent output appears under the name of Trentino, those prepared by the editors in Belluno under the name Corriere delle Alpi. All three editions include the same national and international reporting and differ only in the local parts.

The seat of the printing cooperative SETA - Società editrice tipografica Atesina and the main editors are in Bolzano, next to the newspaper also has offices in Merano and Bressanone. The editors of Trento and Belluno also maintain branch offices. All three issues together employ approximately 150 employees.

In Alto Adige appears once a week a page with Ladin articles. In Trentino, contributions in Cimbrian and Mocheno be published occasionally.

History

The Alto Adige was founded in 1945 by the Comitato Nazionale di Liberation in Bolzano and first appeared on 24 May of the same year. One of the founders was the longtime director and managing director of the newspaper Rolando Boesso. For the political line of the Alto Adige in the early years of the first elected post-war Bolzano Mayor Lino Ziller was responsible.

In December 1945, the printing was cooperative SETA - Società editrice tipografica Atesina founded in whose possession the Alto Adige is located ever since. As of 1946, the newspaper was also marketed in Trentino.

Since the 1950s, the Alto Adige received grants from the Ministry of the Interior of a fund for the defense of Italianität in the border areas. In this time he managed the newspaper also push back the time the only Italian-speaking rivals in the South Tyrolean newspaper market, appearing in L' Adige Trento.

Politically, the Alto Adige positioned since its inception as a defender of Italianität South Tyrol. Since the late 1950s he embarked on a significant worsening of the course and turned in a clear polemic against all efforts to achieve autonomy of South Tyrol. In 1958 appeared a daily German -language page that was set back in 1999. In the 70s, the newspaper began, also favored by an editorial internal generation, outwardly politically to represent more moderate positions and sympathized with opposition parties and movements. After several changes of ownership of the SETA Alto Adige went from 1977 back to a more nationalist line back.

Since 1994, the Alto Adige is also available in the province of Belluno.