Avvenire#History and profile

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = {{lang|it|Avvenire}}

| logo = Avvenire_Logo.svg

| image = Avvenire.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Front page, 31 December 2008

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| owners = Italian Episcopal Conference

| foundation = {{start date and age|1968}}

| political = Political Catholicism
Catholic social teaching
Christian left

| circulation = 45,160,996: annually (2012){{cite web|title=Daily newspapers: national circulation (2012)|url=http://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/1628538/RA14_Eng_Annex/aecfeb2e-4923-4b8e-8ade-c5de0bc04d0a|work=Agcom|access-date=12 June 2016|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727151719/https://www.agcom.it/documents/10179/1628538/RA14_Eng_Annex/aecfeb2e-4923-4b8e-8ade-c5de0bc04d0a|url-status=dead}}

| language = Italian

| headquarters = Milan, Italy

| editor = Marco Girardo

| website = [http://www.avvenire.it/ {{lang|it|Avvenire}}]

}}

{{lang|it|Avvenire}} (English: "Future") is a daily newspaper which is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is based in Milan, Italy.

History and profile

{{lang|it|Avvenire}} was founded in 1968 in Milan through the merger of two Catholic newspapers: {{lang|it|L'Avvenire d'Italia}} of Bologna and {{lang|it|l'Italia}} of Milan. The paper has its headquarters in Milan{{cite web|title=Communicating Europe: Italy Manual|url=http://www.esiweb.org/pdf/enlargement_debates_manual_italy.pdf|work=European Stability Initiative|access-date=7 May 2015|date=19 May 2008}} and is the organ of the progressive wing of the Vatican Council.{{cite book|author1=Anthony Weymouth|author2=Bernard Lamizet|title=Markets and Myths: Forces For Change In the European Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8O3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|access-date=1 March 2015|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-88970-0|page=136}} Pope Paul VI strongly supported the daily and wanted a common cultural medium for Italian Catholics. Throughout its history, {{lang|it|Avvenire}} has maintained this characteristic, despite pressures to accommodate itself to the needs of a society in evolution. For example, in the middle of the 1990s, under the editorship of Dino Boffo, it increased its coverage of civil society and extended the parts of the newspaper devoted to cultural debate.

New initiatives were also launched. In February 1996, a biweekly insert under the name of "Popotus" was published devoted exclusively to youth, for whom three other inserts were also included: "Luoghi dell'Infinito", "Noi Genitori e Figli", and "Non Profit". In 1998, an Internet edition began to be published.

On 7 March 2002, {{lang|it|Avvenire}} experienced a major change with the format and content. From that time, a number of new inserts have been included: "è lavoro" (about job and employment), "è vita" (about bioethics), and "Agorà domenica" (about culture).

These innovations have led to a steady increase in its circulation, significant given the general decline in sales of other Italian newspapers. The average number of copies sold each day in February 2005 was 103,000. As of 2024, Marco Girardo was the editor of the newspaper.{{Cite web |date=5 May 2023 |title=Editoria. Marco Girardo nuovo direttore di Avvenire |url=https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/marco-girardo-nuovo-direttore-di-avvenire |access-date= |website=Avvenire |language=it}}

The newspaper belongs to the Italian Episcopal Conference.{{cite news |date=13 August 2009 |title=Italy's Catholic church 'mortified' by Silvio Berlusconi's private life |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/6019098/Italys-Catholic-church-mortified-by-Silvio-Berlusconis-private-life.html |access-date=23 November 2014 |work=The Telegraph}}

Circulation

In 1997 the circulation of {{lang|it|Avvenire}} was 94,700 copies.{{cite web|author1=Jose L. Alvarez |author2=Carmelo Mazza |author3=Jordi Mur |title=The management publishing industry in Europe |url=http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |work=University of Navarra |access-date=27 April 2015 |format=Occasional Paper No:99/4 |date=October 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630042406/http://www.iese.edu/research/pdfs/OP-99-04-E.pdf |archive-date=30 June 2010 }} It was 97,934 copies in 2004.{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor. Italy|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics and KEA|access-date=5 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411085843/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|archive-date=11 April 2015|url-status=dead}} In 2008 the paper had a circulation of 105,812 copies.{{cite web|title=Dati certificati 2008 |url=http://www.adsnotizie.it/certif/certificati_2008.xls |work=ADS |access-date=8 June 2011 |language=it |format=XLS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722023523/http://www.adsnotizie.it/certif/certificati_2008.xls |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} The circulation of the paper was 106,306 copies in 2009 and 106,928 copies in 2010.{{cite web|title=National newspapers total circulation|url=http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|work=International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Circulations|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206234846/http://www.ifabc.org/site/assets/media/National-Newspapers_total-circulation_IFABC_09-07-12.xls|url-status=dead}}

In 2012 {{lang|it|Avvenire}} sold 45,160,996 copies.

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