''Airone'' () is an Italian
science magazine
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It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly and has a subscrib ...
devoted to science and technology issues. It is published in
Milan
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, Italy, by Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori (former company, now a division of Cairo Editore, a subsidiary of
Cairo Communication
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).
History and profile
''Airone'' was founded in 1981 as an ecologist magazine primarily containing articles about animal world, nature, ethnology and geography.
The founder and first director was Egidio Gavazzi.
It was for years the most widely circulated scientific magazine in Italy,
with a peak of average circulation of about 250,000 copies per month.
Between 1985 and 1986 it co-produced with
RAI
(), commercially styled as since 2000 and known until 1954 as (RAI), is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terrestrial and subscription television channels a ...
the
nature documentary
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series ''Pan''. In 1989 it was launched a spin-off for the younger readers, ''Airone Junior'', renamed ''Dodo'' in April 1995.
''Airone'' was described as a "magazine similar to ''
National Geographic
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'', but perhaps more conservation-minded", and it was referred to as "a stunning natural history magazine, the best of several European magazines". In an article about the first ten years of the magazine, the ''
L'Unità
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'' journalist Antonio Del Giudice pointed how the magazine was "not just an editorial phenomenon, but also a cultural, political e social phenomenon".
The circulation of ''Airone'' was 94,000 copies in 2007. In December 2013 the magazine had a circulation of 83,000 copies per month.
See also
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List of magazines in Italy
In Italy there are many magazines. In the late 1920s there were nearly one hundred literary magazines. Following the end of World War II the number of weekly magazines significantly expanded. From 1970 feminist magazines began to increase in numbe ...
References
External links
''Airone'' Official Website{{in lang, it
1981 establishments in Italy
Italian-language magazines
Magazines established in 1981
Magazines published in Milan
Monthly magazines published in Italy
Science and technology magazines