L'Unione Sarda

L'Unione Sarda

Front page, 4 July 2009
Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	L'Unione Editoriale
Publisher	L'Unione Sarda
Founded	13 October 1889; 135 years ago (1889-10-13)
Political alignment	Centrism Conservatism
Language	Italian
Headquarters	Cagliari, Italy
Circulation	68,332 (2008)
OCLC number	751755237
Website	L'Unione Sarda

L'Unione Sarda is a daily newspaper for the island of Sardinia. It is the oldest newspaper in Sardinia still publishing.

History and profile

L'Unione Sarda was first published on 13 October 1889.[1] In its initial phase Raffa Gazia was the publisher of the paper.[2] It was a radical publication and Antonio Gramsci was among the contributors.[2] He published his first article in the paper.[3]

L'Unione Sarda is based in Cagliari[4] and owned by the Italian businessman Sergio Zuncheddu. Its publisher is L'Unione Sarda SPA.[4] The paper has four editions.[5] It has been the first European newspapers with its own website, launched in 1994.[6]

On its 120th anniversary of the establishment a commemorative stamp was published by the post of Italy on 13 October 2009.[1]

In 2004 the circulation of L'Unione Sarda was 66,700 copies.[7] The paper had a circulation of 68,332 copies in 2008.[8]

See also

• List of newspapers in Italy

References

1. "IT051.09". WNS Stamps. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
2. Roger A. Salerno (2004). Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-275-97724-5.
3. James Martin (2002). Antonio Gramsci: Intellectual and political context. Taylor & Francis. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-415-21748-4.
4. "L'Unione Sarda". Publicitas. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
5. "L'Unione Sarda". Prime Media. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
6. Martin Clark (6 June 2014). Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present. Routledge. p. 483. ISBN 978-1-317-86603-9.
7. "European Publishing Monitor. Italy" (PDF). Turku School of Economics and KEA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
8. Data for average newspaper circulation in 2008 in Italy Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa.

External links

• Official website (in Italian)
• L'Unione Sarda historical front pages (in Italian)