Novella 2000

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.

Novella 2000
CategoriesWomen's magazine
Celebrity magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherRCS Pubblicià
Year founded1919 (1919)
CompanyRCS MediaGroup
CountryItaly
Based inMilan
LanguageItalian
WebsiteNovella 2000
ISSN1120-4443
OCLC317934485

History and profile

It was established as a literary magazine with the name Novella (meaning Short Story in English) in 1919.[1][2] The magazine was started as a notebook-sized publication, and the publisher was Casa Editrice Italia.[3] As of 1926 it was published on a monthly basis, and its editor was Guido Cantini.[4] In 1927 the magazine was acquired by the Rizzoli,[5][6] now RCS MediaGroup, which is still the owner of the magazine.[7][8][9] During this period it published work by Italian intellectuals, including Gabriele D’Annunzio and Luigi Pirandello.[10]

The magazine was relaunched in 1967 as a gossip magazine.[11][12] This drastic transformation which was done by the director of the magazine, Guido Cantini, was a business success.[10] Following this the magazine began to publish a monthly supplement entitled I Romanzi di Novella which was a best-selling romance series.[10]

Novella 2000 is published by RCS Pubblicià, magazine division of RCS MediaGroup, on a weekly basis in Milan[13][14] and features articles on celebrity gossip and scandalous events.[15] Its content is mostly accompanied by paparazzi photographs.[3] The weekly is one of the Italian magazines which published Lady Diana's photographs in her final moments in September 1997.[3]

Circulation

In 1984 Novella 2000 had a circulation of 365,256 copies.[16] From December 2002 to November 2003 its average circulation was 174,095 copies.[17] In 2007 the weekly sold 146,030 copies.[18][19]

See also

References
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  2. "Novella 2000. Factsheet". Publicitas. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. Andrew Whittaker, ed. (2010). Italy: Be Fluent in Italian Life and Culture. Thorogood Publishing. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-85418-628-7.
  4. Gabriella Bosano (November 1926). "Current Italian Periodicals". Italica. 3 (4): 83. JSTOR 476108.
  5. David Forgacs; Stephen Gundle (2007). Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-253-21948-0.
  6. Deirdre Pirro (29 September 2011). "Angelo Rizzoli. From magazines to movies". The Florentine (149).
  7. Fabrizio Tonello (2007). "The Italian Media Landscape". In Georgios Terzis (ed.). European Media Governance: National and Regional Dimensions. Bristol; Chicago, IL: Intellect Books. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-84150-192-5.
  8. Diego Ceccobelli; Antonio Ciaglia; Marco Mazzoni (14 December 2012). "Berlusconi's Pop-Politics: When the Private and Public Spheres Converge" (Conference paper). University of Salford. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  9. Marco Mazzoni; Antonio Ciaglia (2013). "How Italian politics goes popular: Evidence from an empirical analysis of gossip magazines and TV shows". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 17 (4): 381–398. doi:10.1177/1367877913496199.
  10. Fabio Guidali (Winter 2019). "Developing Middlebrow Culture in Fascist Italy: The Case of Rizzoli's Illustrated Magazines". Journal of European Periodical Studies. 4 (2): 106–121. doi:10.21825/jeps.v4i2.10774. hdl:2434/740036.
  11. Antonio Ciaglia; Marco Mazzoni (2014). "Pop-politics in times of crisis: The Italian tabloid press during Mario Monti's government". European Journal of Communication. 29 (4). doi:10.1177/0267323114529535.
  12. Ilaria Parini (2008). "Domesticating or foreignizing texts? Niccolò Ammaniti's Ti Prendo e Ti Porto Via translated into English". In Rebecca Hyde Parker; Karla Guadarrama Garcia (eds.). Thinking Translation: Perspectives from Within and Without: Conference Proceedings, Third UEA Postgraduate Translation Symposium. Boca Raton: Brown Walker Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-59942-461-3.
  13. "RCS MediaGroup SpA". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  14. Mark Gilbert; Robert K. Nilsson, eds. (2007). Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-0-8108-6428-3.
  15. Franca Merlonghi; Ferdinando Merlonghi; Joseph Tursi; Brian O’Connor (2011). Oggi In Italia: A First Course in Italian. Australia: Cengage Learning. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-133-17121-8.
  16. Maria Teresa Crisci. "Relationships between numbers of readers per copy and the characteristics of magazines" (PDF). The Print and Digital Research Forum. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  17. "Rcs Mediagroup" (PDF). Borsa Italiana. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  18. "Dati ADS (tirature e vendite)". Fotografi (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  19. Anne Austin; et al. (2008). "Western Europe Market and Media Fact" (PDF). Zenith Optimedia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
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