Panorama is a weekly news magazine based in the city of Milan, Italy.[1]
Panorama was founded in Milan in 1939.[2] The magazine was temporarily closed by the Fascist rule in December 1940 due to the publication of the translated texts by Ada Prospero.[3] It was relaunched by Italian publisher Arnoldo Mondadori in cooperation with the American Time Inc. group in Milan in October 1962.[4][5][6]
The magazine came out biweekly in the initial period.[3]
The magazine is owned and published by La Verità Srl, having bought it in 2018 from Arnoldo Mondadori Editore,[5][7] the largest Italian publishing house.[8] Mondadori is controlled by Fininvest, a financial holding company controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi,[2][5] a former Prime Minister of Italy. Although American group Time-Life company also owned the magazine, later it left the magazine due to low circulation levels.[6]
Panorama had a circulation of 350,429 copies in 1984.[9] The circulation of the magazine was 530,031 copies between September 1993 and August 1994.[10] In 2000 it rose to 566,000 copies.[11] The 2003 circulation of the weekly was 525,000 copies.[4] Its circulation was 514,000 copies in 2004.[12] It was the third best-selling news magazine in Italy in 2007[13] with a circulation of 479,297 copies.[14] The circulation of the magazine was 511,349 copies in 2010.[15] The magazine had a circulation of 303,422 copies in June 2013.[16] The magazine had a circulation of 80,318 copies and sold 47,425 copies in May 2021.[17]
Maurizio Belpietro is the magazine's director, succeeding Giorgio Mulé and Pietro Calabrese. A former director of the magazine, Carlo Rossella, became a director of Medusa Film.
Adolfo Battaglia, a veteran journalist and politician, is among the former contributors of Panorama.[18]
The current contributors of Panorama include:
