Panorama is a right-wing

Right-wing politics

In politics, Right, right-wing and rightist generally refer to support for a hierarchical society justified on the basis of an appeal to natural law or tradition. To varying degrees, the Right rejects the egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming that the imposition of equality is...

 Italian-language news magazine.

Ownership

The magazine is published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.-History:Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 to publish the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. Its headquarters are in Milan....

, the largest Italian publishing house

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

. The publishing house is controlled by Fininvest

Fininvest

Fininvest is a financial holding company controlled by Silvio Berlusconi's family and managed by Silvio Berlusconi's eldest daughter Marina Berlusconi.-Structure:...

, a financial holding company

Holding company

A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...

 controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

, Italian prime minister

Prime minister of Italy

The Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government of the Italian Republic...

 until November 2011.

Circulation

With a circulation of 300,000, it is one of the two most-prominent Italian weekly magazines; the other is L'espresso

L'Espresso

l'Espresso is an Italian newsmagazine. It is one of the two most prominent Italian weeklies, the other being Panorama. Since the latter has been acquired by right-wing tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi, l'Espresso enjoys the reputation of being the main politically independent newsmagazine...

.

Management and staff

Maurizio Belpietro

Maurizio Belpietro

Maurizio Belpietro is an Italian journalist and television presenter.-Biography:Belpietro was born in Castenedolo, near Brescia, but he grew up in the town of Palazzolo sull'Oglio. He started his career as a journalist writing for the local newspaper Bresciaoggi in 1975...

 is the magazine's director, succeeding Pietro Calabrese

Pietro Calabrese

Pietro Calabrese was an Italian sports journalist who worked for the Gazzetta dello Sport, Panorama and Il Messaggero.-References:...

; Paolo Madron, Rita Pinci and Luciano Santilli are vice-directors. A former director of the magazine, Carlo Rossella, became a director of Medusa Film.

Editorial staff

• Enzo Bettiza
  Enzo Bettiza
  Enzo Bettiza is a Dalmatian-born Italian novelist, journalist and politician.-Biography:Bettiza was born in Dalmatia, in a rich family of the Italian minority. His mother stemmed from a family of the Croatian isle of Brač...
  
  
• Gianni Baget Bozzo
  Gianni Baget Bozzo
  Gianni Baget Bozzo was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.Baget Bozzo was born in Savona, and graduated in law. At one-time Christian-Democrat activist, in 1984 he was elected at the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party and from 1994 he had been a member of Silvio...
  
  
• Giuliano Ferrara
  Giuliano Ferrara
  Giuliano Ferrara is an Italian politician, journalist, founding editor of Il Foglio, and TV presenter.After the militancy in the PCI and PSI, in the nineties has become a supporter of Silvio Berlusconi, and finally one of the most intellectual representatives of Italian Theoconservativism-Life and...
  
  

• Paolo Guzzanti
  Paolo Guzzanti
  Paolo Guzzanti is an Italian journalist and politician. He was previously a member of the Italian Socialist Party.-Biography:Born in Rome, he is the nephew of Elio Guzzanti and father to actors Corrado, Sabina and Caterina....
  
  
• Fiamma Nirenstein
  Fiamma Nirenstein
  Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian politician, journalist and author. She is a member of Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition government and is Vice-president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Italian Chamber of Deputies...
  
  
• Adriano Sofri
  Adriano Sofri
  Adriano Sofri is an Italian intellectual, a journalist and a writer.Former leader of the autonomist movement Lotta Continua in the 1960s, he was arrested in 1988 and convicted to 22 years of prison, having been found guilty of being the instigator of the murder of Luigi Calabresi, a police...
  
  

Publication of articles by The Economist

The magazine also publishes articles by The Economist

The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

, an English-language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 weekly news and international-affairs

International relations

International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

magazine, which has criticized Berlusconi several times.

External links

• Magazine's official website
• Magazine's official archival website