Frequency Weekly Company RCS MediaGroup | Publisher RCS Pubblicià Country Italy | |
Categories Women's magazine
Celebrity magazine Year founded 1919; 98 years ago (1919) | ||
Novella 2000 is an Italian language weekly celebrity and women's magazine published in Milan, Italy. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest publications in the country. It is also one of the most read and well-known Italian gossip magazines.
History and profile
It was established as a literary magazine with the name Novella (meaning Short Story in English) in 1919. The magazine was started as a notebook-sized publication and the publisher was Casa Editrice Italia. In 1927 the magazine was acquired by the Rizzoli, now RCS MediaGroup, which is still the owner of the magazine. The magazine was relaunched in 1967 as a gossip magazine.
Novella 2000 is published by RCS Pubblicià, magazine division of RCS MediaGroup, on a weekly basis in Milan and features articles on celebrity gossip and scandalous events. Its content is mostly accompanied by paparazzi photographs. The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.
In 1984 Novella 2000 had a circulation of 365,256 copies. From December 2002 to November 2003 its average circulation was 174,095 copies. In 2007 the circulation of the weekly was 146,030 copies.