Newspapers plummet, deep in the red for a year, with Repubblica-La Stampa dropping by double digits. Five more big losers. Travaglio rises (again) / Ads data

The trend in the top 10 newspapers remains unchanged (but the discussion can easily be extended to the top 20): all are in the red, except—as usual— Marco Travaglio's Il Fatto Quotidiano , which holds its own and holds its own along with Roberto Napoletano's Il Mattino . The rest of the newspapers are in the red, with the Gedi duo, La Repubblica, and La Stampa recording double-digit declines (around 10%). This is the verdict for July 2025 (estimated) compared to the same month in 2024 (accounting) —according to ADS data (print + digital). Let's look at the situation daily by daily ( here instead is the month-over-month comparison, July/June, with 3 newspapers accelerating ).

Newspaper trends year-over-year: July 2025 (estimated) vs. July 2024 (accounted)

Corriere della Sera has an undisputed leadership in the sales ranking, even if it drops from 231,899 to 214,080 in the year-on-year comparison (-7.68%).

Second place still goes to RCS, with La Gazzetta dello Sport taking the silver medal, however, going from 151,941 to 138,616 (-8.77%).

La Repubblica remains in third place despite a double-digit drop (-10.09) from 147,902 to 132,982.

Il Sole 24 Ore contains its losses compared to the general trend of newspapers (-3.75%) and confirms its fourth place: there were 117,126 in July 2024 and 112,732 this year.

Top 5 with Avvenire , among the most positive in the general panorama (almost parity, -0.92%): from 97,300 to 96,405.

La Stampa remains in sixth place, but here too, Gedi records a double-digit decrease (-10.04%), losing 70,000 shares: from 76,989 to 69,258.

Il Messaggero holds seventh place overall, but the trend is downward (-7.48%), seeing the sixty thousand copies mark move away: from 59,535 to 55,079.

Il Fatto Quotidiano is not losing ground; as mentioned, it is the only newspaper in the top 10 to grow (+0.88%), closing in on Il Messaggero , aiming for seventh place, and rising from 53,588 to 54,059.

Qn - The rest of the Carlino remains ninth in the rankings, but loses the 'wake' of the Fatto and the 50 thousand quota: from 53,965 to 49,819 (-7.68%)

The top 10 closes with Il Gazzettino which drops in the trend of copies (-7.68%): from 42,446 to 40,069

Some trends outside the top 10

- Corriere dello Sport drops 19.80% to 37,090

- Qn - La Nazione loses 10.35% to 31,993

- Il Giornale (-9.58%) and La Verità (-12.83%) fall to 25,002 and 23,253 respectively

- Il Mattino is the only newspaper with (slight) growth besides Fatto Quotidiano : +0.19% with 20,786