Punto Informatico

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|caption = Frontpage, 7 March 2009

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|commercial = Yes

|type = Online newspaper

|language = Italian

|registration = Optional

|editor = Massimo Mattone

|owner = Edizioni Master

|launch_date = {{Start date|1995}}

|current_status = Active{{When|date=June 2014}}

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Punto Informatico (literally "Informatic point", pun for "Informative place") is an Italian online newspaper.

Founded in 1995 and established in 1996, it has been the first Italian daily newspaper published online[http://punto-informatico.it/info.asp Cos'è Punto Informatico?][https://web.archive.org/web/20060605002932/http://telefonino.libero.it/i-mode/te_portale_full144.phtml Libero.it, Description] and one of the most read and influential in Italy.{{Cite web |url=http://www.edmaster.it/index.php?p=press&id=301 |title=Edizioni Master, press release |access-date=2014-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714141520/http://www.edmaster.it/index.php?p=press&id=301 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.comunicati.net/comunicati/aziende/editoria/34610.html PI: Dati record]{{cite book |last=Iaselli |first=Michele |date=2006 |title=La ricerca Giuridica in Internet |trans-title=Juridical research on Internet |language= it |publisher=Halley |isbn=8875891532}}{{rp|229}}Alexa, [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/punto-informatico.it Punto Informatico Alexa stat]. With 1.1 millions of reader per month, the online edition was the third most widely read in Italy as of June 2008, after La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera and La Stampa.[http://www.edmaster.it/index.php?p=press&id=301 Edizioni Master Spa acquisisce Punto Informatico] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714141520/http://www.edmaster.it/index.php?p=press&id=301 |date=2014-07-14 }}, Oktober 2008[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/10/20/internet.html Internet], La Repubblica, 20. Oktober 2001

It has a front page and several specific section dedicated to different topics such as "topicality", "technology", "law", "business" and "security". It has also been defined a "source for legal information", because of its interest to legal related topics and expert writers.{{rp|11}}

Punto Informatico was nominated twice for the Ischia International Journalism Award, in 2009 and 2010.