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Giornale di Sicilia
Italian daily newspaper From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Giornale di Sicilia (lit. 'Newspaper of Sicily') is an Italian national daily newspaper for the island of Sicily. It is based in Palermo,[1] and is the best-selling newspaper in Sicily.[2] Since 2017, it is owned by the daily newspaper of Messina, Gazzetta del Sud.[3]
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Giornale di Sicilia was founded in 1860, immediately following the Expedition of the Thousand headed by Giuseppe Garibaldi; it was first published on 7 June of that year under the name "Giornale Officiale di Sicilia" with Girolamo Ardizzone as its first editor-in-chief.
The paper played a significant role in nationalizing the Italian rural women in Sicily at the beginning of the 1900s.[4]
It is published in ten different local versions, one for each province of Sicily plus another one for the city of Palermo.
Giornale di Sicilia had a circulation of 67,216 copies in 2004.[5] The circulation of the paper was 67,332 copies in 2008.[6]
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