Type Daily newspaper Political alignment Catholic | Editor-in-chief Claudio Mésoniat | |
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Founded 1927; 90 years ago (1927) | ||
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. It is a Catholic daily of the canton. In the early 1990s the paper had a circulation of 23,000 copies.
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.
References
Giornale del Popolo Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA