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A Brief History of Corriere della Sera
The Corriere della Sera was first published in Milan, in 1876. The newspaper had four pages and was delivered in the afternoon. It had a circulation of 15.000 copies. In 1883, a second afternoon edition was added; in 1890 a new mor ning edition was published, and finally, in 1903, Corriere became a four edition newspaper, two morning and two afternoon editions. The number of the pages was still four. In 1920 the circulation was raised up to 600.000 copies. In 1905 the pages doubled, and the eight page foliation changed again only in the ffties, when it got to sixteen. The number of pages then gr ew constantly, and was almost fi fty in 1992. From 1867 to 1992 almost two millions of pages wer e printed. On 1 945, April 25 th, the liberation day in Italy, Corriere della Sera stopped publication. After one month pages wer e printed again, but the name of the newspaper changed to Corriere d'Informazione. Finally, on 1946 may 7th, the name Corriere della Sera was printed again, and Corriere d'Informazione became the after noon edition(s) of Corriere della Sera, until the end of 1981 . Since then only Corriere della Sera was printed, with all its editions. Today Corriere is delivered with a circulation of about 480.000 copies, and has, besides local editions, fi fteen regional editions too.
The Documentation Center - Consultation and Preservation
In 1910 Luigi Albertini, Director of Corriere della Sera, decided that an internal library could be built to provide journalists of basic information tools. Casimiro Wronowski, a young copy editor, was chosen to build it. He started cr eating a collection of clipped articles, about people and facts. Since 1901 an index, year based, of the pages of Corriere della Sera had been created, containing subjects, names, places.
The Corriere Archive, due mostly to the annual index, has always had a double worthiness and destination: on one hand it was and is a consultation ar chive, with all the usual str ess coming along with the fr equent handling of volumes, on the other it obviously should be preserved, and so more than one copy of the volumes had been pr oduced. In 1974,...