Citynews (Italy)

Citynews

Headquarters	Rome, Naples , Italy
Area served	National, metropolitan
Key people	Luca Lani, Fernando Diana – company founders Krzysztof K. Wasielewski – CTO
Website	citynews.it

Citynews is an Italian newspaper group founded in 2010 by Luca Lani and Fernando Diana. The company prepares forty-seven local editions, one national edition, and one international edition. For several consecutive years, it has been one of the third most popular Italian newspapers.^{[citation needed]}

History

Citynews was founded in January 2010 by Luca Lani and Fernando Diana as a journalistic start-up.^[1] In 2011, after the opening of FoggiaToday, it joined the company with a first round of investment of 3 million Euros, followed by other acquisitions of digital publications such as, LeccePrima, RomagnaOggi and AgrigentoNotizie.^[2] By the end of 2011, Citynews was the publisher of thirty newspapers with fifty-six journalists working in total.^[3]

In 2012, Citynews and opened newspapers in Monza, Treviso, Venice, Trento, and Udine. In March, the national newspaper Today [it] was established.^[4]

In 2013, a second investment round of 1.5 million euros was signed by venture capital: Citynews became a joint-stock company, reaching a balanced budget in June.^[5] In the same year, they released the new App for iOS and Android.^[6]

In 2014, Citynews acquired the

In 2015, CityNews established a newspaper in Avellino, closing the year with forty-two newspapers.^[2][8] They were accepted to join Audiweb.^[4] The next year, all newspapers were redesigned and Walter Bonanno became General Manager of the Editorial Group.^[9][10] In 2017, CityNews revealed a new logo and released^[11] mobile apps for each of their newspapers.^[12] QuiComo, FrosinoneToday and CasertaNews were acquired.

In the same year, CityNews launched EuropaToday, in order to cover the