Diario was an Italian

Italy

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 magazine

Magazine

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, founded on 23 October 1996 by Enrico Deaglio

Enrico Deaglio

-Biography:Deaglio was born in Turin, where he graduated in medicine and worked in the Mauriziano Hospital.In the mid-1970s, he started his journalist career for the communist newspaper Lotta continua, of which he was director from 1977 to 1982...

, Luca Formenton and Amato Mattia as a weekly linked to the daily newspaper l'Unità

L'Unità

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. Deaglio was the first editor, and remained in that post until 8 September 2008 when he was replaced by Massimo Rebotti, previously of Radio Popolare

Radio Popolare

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In 1997 the magazine became independent of l’Unità and on Friday 7 September, after 567 issues, it became a fortnightly: a state of affairs which lasted for 28 issues and until 6 March 2009. From the issue of 3 April 2009, Diario became a monthly, with each issue being devoted to a particular subject. The magazine ceased print publication after the issue of December 2009.

The periodical achieved great successes with monographic issues such as ‘Memoria’ and ‘Berlusconeide’; in 2006 and 2007 it was at the centre of large-scale polemics which resulted from its investigations into the alleged rigging of the 2006 elections

Italian general election, 2006

In the Italian general election, 2006 for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy held on April 9 and April 10, 2006 the incumbent prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the center-right House of Freedoms, was narrowly defeated by Romano Prodi, leader of the center-left The...

. On 5 December 2002 Diario, along with the Serbian daily Danas

Danas

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, received in Paris

Paris

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 the Prix de Le Guide de la Presse.