Giornale di Sicilia

Giornale di Sicilia is an Italian -language daily newspaper with headquarters in Palermo. The political approach is rather conservative - centrist. In Sicily Giornale di Sicilia is the best-selling daily newspaper.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1860 by Girolamo Ardizzone, also the first editor in chief. Shortly after Giuseppe Garibaldi was with his thousand guerrillas landed in Sicily ( " train of a Thousand" ), she first appeared on June 7, 1860 under the name officiale Giornale di Sicilia ( Official newspaper of Sicily ). This Giornale di Sicilia is also one of Italy's oldest newspapers. The majority of the shares is still in the hands of the Ardizzone family. The current publisher is Antonio Ardizzone.

On January 26, 1979 Mario Francese, the former crime reporter of the Giornale di Sicilia, shot in Palermo by the Cosa Nostra ( the Sicilian Mafia).

In recent years, however, the newspaper made ​​among others by their repeated controversies with the former mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, and the Communist Party of Italy talked about.

Dissemination

Giornale di Sicilia is currently published in 10 different editions and appear in each version of the Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento, Marsala, Gela, Caltanissetta, Messina, Catania, Enna, and for Syracuse and Ragusa and covers all the provinces of Sicily. In December 2007, edition of the Giornale di Sicilia was about 64,000 copies.

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