Citynews (Italy)

Citynews is an Italian newspaper group founded in 2010 by Luca Lani and Fernando Diana. The company prepares forty-seven local editions, one national edition, and one international edition. For several consecutive years, it has been one of the third most popular Italian newspapers.

Citynews
Headquarters
Rome, Naples
,
Italy
Area served
National, metropolitan
Key people
Luca Lani, Fernando Diana – company founders
Walter Bonanno – CEO
Websitecitynews.it


History

Citynews was founded in January 2010 by Luca Lani and Fernando Diana as a journalistic start-up.[1] In 2011, after the opening of FoggiaToday, it joined the company with a first round of investment of 3 million Euros, followed by other acquisitions of digital publications such as, LeccePrima, RomagnaOggi and AgrigentoNotizie.[2] By the end of 2011, Citynews was the publisher of thirty newspapers with fifty-six journalists working in total.[3]

In 2012, Citynews and opened newspapers in Monza, Treviso, Venice, Trento, and Udine. In March, the national newspaper Today was established.[4]

In 2013, a second investment round of 1.5 million euros was signed by venture capital: Citynews became a joint-stock company, reaching a balanced budget in June.[5] In the same year, they released the new App for iOS and Android.[6]

In 2014, Citynews acquired the Brindisi-based BrindisiReport and the main online newspaper in Trieste, TriestePrima.[7] By the end of 2014, Citynews was running solely on advertising income. Prior to this, their advertising partners were Fox Network and Fox International Channels. They have opened several offices with focal points in Rome and Milan.

In 2015, CityNews established a newspaper in Avellino, closing the year with forty-two newspapers.[2][8] They were accepted to join Audiweb.[4] The next year, all newspapers were redesigned and Walter Bonanno became General Manager of the Editorial Group.[9][10] In 2017, CityNews revealed a new logo and released[11] mobile apps for each of their newspapers.[12] QuiComo, FrosinoneToday and CasertaNews were acquired.

In the same year, CityNews launched EuropaToday, in order to cover the European Parliament in Italy.[13] At the end of the year, they had 47 newspapers and 200 journalists.[14] At the end of 2017, Citynews was ranked the third in the comScore ranking of national online publications.[15][16]

In April 2018, Citynews was ranked the second in the Comscore among the national online publications based on views, with almost 21 million visitors, ahead of Corriere della Sera, but behind la Repubblica.[17] In July 2018, Citynews went down in ranking to the 4th position among online publications.[18] In the same month, Citynews launches TerniToday.[19] In August 2018, Citynews ranked as the 2nd most popular online publication based on view count.[20]

The company is present in the Sole24ore ranking 216 among 350 Italian companies with the highest growth rate.[21]

Structure

Citynews publishes forty-seven local editions and five national editions. Their editorial team consists of 250 people, including company employees and freelancers. Since 2016, Walter Bonanno is the managing director of the publishing group.[9] The Citynews editorial group includes the following editions:[22]

Metropolitan editions
  • Agrigentonotizie
  • AnconaToday
  • ArezzonoToday
  • AvellinoToday
  • BariToday
  • BolognaToday
  • BresciaToday
  • BrindisiReport
  • CasertaNews
  • CataniaToday
  • CesenaToday
  • ChietiToday
  • FirenzeToday
  • FoggiaToday
  • ForliToday
  • FrosinoneToday
  • GenovaToday
  • ilPescara
  • ilPiacenza
  • LatinaToday
  • Lecceprima
  • LeccoToday
  • MilanoToday
  • ModenaToday
  • MonzaToday
  • NapoliToday
  • NovaraToday
  • Padovaoggi
  • PalermoToday
  • ParmaToday
  • PerugiaToday
  • PisaToday
  • Quicomo
  • RavennaToday
  • RiminiToday'
  • RomaToday
  • SalernoToday
  • SondrioToday
  • TerniToday
  • TorinoToday
  • TrentoToday
  • TrevisoToday
  • Triesteprima
  • UdineToday
  • VeneziaToday
  • VeronaSera
  • VicenzaToday

National and thematic editions
  • AgrifoodToday
  • EuropaToday
  • RomaGnaoGGi
  • SportPiaCenza
  • Today

See also

References
  1. "Citynews Spa - Company Profile and News - Bloomberg Markets". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  2. "Lani (City News): "Editoria online, vi spiego perché il modello di business ora funziona"". Economyup. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  3. "politicamentecorretto.com – Citynews, partecipata Banzai S.p.A fondata da Luca Lani e Fernando Diana annuncia l'acquisizione di LeccePrima". politicamentecorretto.com.
  4. "Citynews apre una sua concessionaria interna per la raccolta nazionale ed entra in Audiweb". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 12 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  5. Kranenburg, Hans van (2017). Innovation Policies in the European News Media Industry: A Comparative Study. Springer. ISBN 9783319452043.
  6. "Nascono le nuove applicazioni Citynews per iPhone e smartphone con sistema Android". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 18 October 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  7. "New entry nel network Citynews: arriva BrindisiReport.it – Engage.it". Engage | News and views sul marketing pubblicitario (in Italian). 27 March 2014.
  8. "Citynews acquisisce il 100% di LeccePrima e RomagnaOggi – Engage.it". Engage | News and views sul marketing pubblicitario (in Italian). 29 July 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  9. "Walter Bonanno è il nuovo direttore generale di Citynews. Tra i primi compiti dovrà riunire la gestione dalla raccolta pubblicitaria nazionale con quella locale". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 19 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  10. "Walter Bonanno direttore generale di CityNews". DailyOnline (in Italian). 20 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  11. "Nuovo logo istituzionale per il Gruppo Editoriale Citynews con True Company". Pubblicità Italia (in Italian). 14 April 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  12. "Citynews lancia 42 App in 42 città e punta su un nuovo formato native – Engage.it". Engage | News and views sul marketing pubblicitario (in Italian). 26 June 2017.
  13. "Citynews lancia 42 App in 42 città e punta su un nuovo formato native – Engage.it". Engage | News and views sul marketing pubblicitario (in Italian). 26 June 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  14. "Citynews, giro d'affari di 8 milioni nel 2017; Diana: "Sei nuove testate nel 2018"". Engage | News and views sul marketing pubblicitario (in Italian). 15 December 2017. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  15. "Citynews, leader nell'editoria digitale italiana. Intervista al Founder Luca Lani". Notiziario USPI (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  16. "Il Gruppo Editoriale Citynews chiude il 2017 sopra i 10 milioni, a +26,7%". DailyOnline (in Italian). 29 May 2018.
  17. "Classifica dell'informazione online in aprile, secondo Comscore". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  18. "Classifica dell'informazione online di maggio, secondo Comscore (TABELLA)". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 6 July 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  19. "Citynews lancia TerniToday e allarga la copertura in Umbria". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 12 July 2018.
  20. "Classifica dell'informazione online Comscore, giugno 2018". Prima Comunicazione (in Italian). 9 August 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  21. "La lista della 350 aziende italiane cresciute di più – Il Sole 24 Ore". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  22. "Citynews – Brands". CityNews (in Italian). Retrieved 19 December 2018.
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