L'espresso

L'espresso is an Italian weekly magazine, which belongs to the Gruppo L' Espresso editoriale and describes itself as a political, cultural and economic magazine. In addition to the panorama, it is one of the most important magazines of the country.

History

In 1955, the " Società editrice L' Espresso" was established and under the direction of Arrigo Benedetti created the first publications of the journal. On 2 October 1955, the first edition was published, 16 pages broadsheet. 1963 Eugenio Scalfari been appointed as the new director and 1965 has become more colorful because of color images and color advertising magazine. Then it went with the rest up quickly and in 1967 the border from 100,000 sold copies per edition was first exceeded. In 1975, the company was renamed " Editoriale L' Espresso" and in the fall of 1986, the Business & Finance ( Affari & Finanza ) section was separated and distributed together with the daily La Repubblica.

Early 90s came the magazine in the mass media criticism, since the cover was systematically covered with liberal women and, according to many opponents, only fulfilled the purpose to increase the reader's attention and then the rest. As it turned out, these images had only a marginal effect and nothing to do with the actual content, but still from 2002, no (semi-) naked women were more shown on the title page.

Following Eugenio Scalfari is the position as director of Gianni Corbi (1968-1970), Livio Zanetti (1970-1984), Giovanni Valentini (1984-1991), Claudio Rinaldi (1991-1999), Giulio Anselmi (1999-2002) and transferred to Daniela Hamaui (2002-2010). Since 2010 Bruno Manfellotto has held this position.

The magazine is published every week on Friday and has center-left oriented tendencies, as well as La Repubblica, and also not stingy with criticism of the various political camps.