Il Sole 24 Ore

Once one of Italy's highest circulation newspapers, Il Sole 24 Ore focuses on business, politics and commercial and industrial law. It also publishes stock market data and expert opinions on international financial markets. Culture and cultural policy are another focus area, to which the paper's Sunday supplement is dedicated. Il Sole 24 Ore is regarded as the country's most politically independent newspaper despite the fact that the powerful Italian employers' federation Confindustria owns it. In 2016 Il Sole 24 Ore was in the red to the tune of 50 million euros. The president of the group, Giorgi Squinzi, and four members of the supervisory board resigned. In 2019, Consob, the supervisory body for listed companies, fined the newspaper's top management 1.05 million euros for inflating the circulation figures for digital copies in order to manipulate the market. Fabio Tamburini took over as editor-in-chief in the same year.