Cronaca Vera (Italian for True Chronicles) is a weekly, tabloid news magazine, published in Italy.
 Issue 117 (1974)[note 1] | |
| Editor-in-chief | Giuseppe Biselli |
|---|---|
| Categories | News magazine |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | New Message Uno S.r.l. |
| First issue | 1969 |
| Country | Italy |
| Based in | Piazza Erculea 5 Milano 20122 |
| Language | Italian |
| Website | Cronaca Vera |
| ISSN | 1125-5544 |
History
editThe magazine was founded in 1969 by entrepreneur Sergio Garassini, who had launched the monthly erotic magazine Kent.[1] Garassini appointed Antonio Perria, crime author and former ABC editor who had also worked at L'Unità as a crime reporter, to be the periodical's first editor-in-chief.[2] The graphic illustrator and comics artist Maurizio Bovarini[3] was entrusted with the design of Cronaca,[4] while he also, in the same year, started working as editor at the Italian edition of Hara-Kiri magazine.[5]
Content
editThe magazine is printed in "low-quality paper" and costs one euro. An issue typically contains from about a dozen up to fifteen reports ranging from local news to crime, from stories of everyday violence to controversies. It contains columns such as Il Racconto Giallo/Nero (Tales of Yellow/Black)[note 2] with crime stories, or I Misteri del Sesso (The Mysteries of Sex), where readers write in about their sexual problems. Its titles, in "jarring yellows and reds,"[6] are considered by Vice magazine to be "wonderful."[6]
Cronaca Vera is considered "a lurid tabloid" by some critics,[7] although its covers are for others "unmissable",[8] while for the mayoralty of Ribera, Agrigento, the magazine is "prestigious."[9]
Popularity
editIn the mid-1970s, Cronaca was selling approximately 600 thousand issues every week. Editor-in-chief Giuseppe Biselli contends that the magazine receives "approximately 20,000 letters" from readers every year.[4] He agrees with the finding that it is the most popular publication among prison inmates.[4]
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ Maina, Giovanna (2020). Play, men! Un panorama della stampa italiana per adulti (1966-1975) [Play, Men! A panorama of the Italian press for adults (1966-1975)] (in Italian). Mimesis. ISBN 978-8857556512.
- ^ Amedei, Ermanno (4 October 2013). "Lo storico settimanale Cronaca Vera approda su internet e brucia sul tempo altri giornali più… moderni" [The historic weekly Cronaca Vera lands on the internet and over time burns up other more… modern newspapers]. Il punto a Mezzogiorno (in Italian). Rome. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Maurizio Bovarini" (in Italian). Associazione Franco Fossati, Museo del fumetto e della comunicazione. 2003. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ a b c "L'Italia di Cronaca Vera" [The Italy of Cronaca Vera]. Il Post (in Italian). 30 January 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Maurizio Bovarini". Amsterdam: Lambiek. 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ a b Small, Tim (5 January 2008). "La vera cronaca di Cronaca Vera" [The true chronicle of the True Chronicles]. Vice Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ Gundle, Stephen; Rinaldi, Lucia, eds. (7 November 2007). Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy: Transformations in Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 170. ISBN 978-1349539444.
- ^ "Cronaca Vera e la suora che ha abusato di una 12enne" [Cronaca Vera and the nun who abused a 12 year olda]. Next Quotidiano (in Italian). 25 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Il successo della 1o edizione del Pizza Fest su Cronaca Vera" [The success of the 1st Pizza Festival occasion in Cronaca Vera] (in Italian). Mayor's Cabinet Office. 27 October 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2021.