Editing Italian Americans (section)

===Media===

====Television personalities====
Numerous American television and Cable personalities are of Italian descent. Talk-show hosts include [[Jay Leno]], [[Jimmy Kimmel]], [[Kelly Ripa]], [[Maria Bartiromo]], [[Adam Carolla]], [[Neil Cavuto]], [[Kelly Monaco]], [[Jai Rodriguez]], [[Annette Funicello]], [[Victoria Gotti]], [[Tony Danza]], [[Giuliana DePandi]], [[Giuliana Rancic]], Bruno Cipriani.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 19, 2015 |title=Famous Italian American TV Personalities |url=https://www.lifeinitaly.com/cinema-italiano/italian-movies/italian-american-tv-celebrities/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623171048/https://www.lifeinitaly.com/cinema-italiano/italian-movies/italian-american-tv-celebrities/ |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |access-date=May 15, 2021 |website=Life in Italy}}</ref>  

====Italian American newspapers====
[[Generoso Pope]] (1891–1950), the owner of a chain of Italian language newspapers in major cities, stands out as the epitome of the Italian American ethnic political broker. He bought ''[[Il Progresso Italo-Americano]]'' in 1928 for $2 million; he doubled its circulation to 200,000 in New York City, making it the largest Italian-language paper in the country. He purchased additional papers in New York and [[Philadelphia]], which became the chief source of political, social, and cultural information for the community. Pope encouraged his readers to learn English, become citizens, and vote; his goal was to instill pride and ambition to succeed in modern America. A conservative Democrat who ran the Columbus Day parade and admired Mussolini, Pope was the most powerful enemy of anti-Fascism among Italian Americans. Closely associated with [[Tammany Hall]] politics in New York, Pope and his newspapers played a vital role in securing the Italian vote for [[New Deal Coalition|Franklin D. Roosevelt's Democratic tickets]]. He served as chairman of the Italian Division of the Democratic National Committee in 1936, and helped persuade the president to take a neutral attitude over [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Italy's invasion of Ethiopia]]. He broke with Mussolini in 1941 and enthusiastically supported the American war effort. In the late 1940s Pope supported the election of [[William O'Dwyer]] as mayor in 1945 and [[Harry S. Truman]] as president. His business concerns continued to prosper under New York's Democratic administrations, and in 1946 he added the Italian-language radio station [[WHOM]] to his media holdings. In the early years of the [[Cold War]], Pope was a leading [[anti-Communist]] and orchestrated a letter-writing campaign by his subscribers to stop the Communists from winning the [[Italian elections in 1948]].<ref>Philip V. Cannistraro, "Generoso Pope and the Rise of Italian American Politics, 1925-1936", in ''Italian Americans: New Perspectives in Italian Immigration and Ethnicity'', edited by Lydio F. Tomasi, (1985) pp 264–288.</ref>

Voters did not always vote the way editorials dictated, but they depended on the news coverage. At many smaller papers, support for Mussolini, short-sighted opportunism, deference to political patrons who were not members of the Italian-American communities, and the necessity of making a living through periodicals with a small circulation, generally weakened the owners of Italian-language newspapers when they tried to become political brokers of the Italian American vote.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Luconi |first1=Stefano |year=2001 |title=Generoso Pope and Italian-American Voters in New York City |journal=Studi Emigrazione |volume=38 |issue=142 |pages=399–422}}</ref>

James V. Donnaruma purchased Boston's ''La Gazzetta del Massachusetts'' in 1905. ''La Gazzetta'' enjoyed a wide readership in Boston's Italian community because it emphasized detailed coverage of local ethnic events and explained how events in Europe affected the community. Donnaruma's editorial positions, however, were frequently at odds with the sentiments of his readership. Donnaruma's conservative views and desire for greater advertising revenue prompted him to court the favor of Boston's [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] elite, to whom he pledged editorial support in return for the purchase of advertising space for political campaigns. ''La Gazzetta'' consistently supported Republican candidates and policy positions, even when the party was proposing and passing laws to restrict Italian immigration. Nevertheless, voting records from the 1920s–1930s show that Boston's Italian Americans voted heavily for Democratic candidates.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deschamps |first1=Benedicte |last2=Luconi |first2=Stefano |year=2002 |title=The Publisher of the Foreign-Language Press as an Ethnic Leader? The Case of James V. Donnaruma and Boston's Italian-American Community in the Interwar Years |journal=[[Historical Journal of Massachusetts]] |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=126–143}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eula |first1=Michael J. |year=2001 |title=Ethnicity and Newark's 'Italian Tribune', 1934–1980 |journal=Italian Americana |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=23–35}}</ref>

[[Carmelo Zito]] took over the [[San Francisco]] newspaper ''Il Corriere del Popolo'' in 1935. Under Zito, it became one of the fiercest foes of Mussolini's fascism on the West Coast. It vigorously attacked Italy's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia and its intervention in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Zito helped form the Italian-American Anti-Fascist League and often attacked certain Italian prominenti like Ettore Patrizi, publisher of ''L'Italia'' and ''La Voce del Popolo''. Zito's paper campaigned against alleged Italian pro-Fascist language schools of San Francisco.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deschamps |first1=Bénédicte |year=2001 |title=Opposing Fascism in the West: The Experience of 'Il Corriere Del Popolo' in San Francisco in the Late 1930s |journal=Proceedings of the American Italian Historical Association |volume=34 |pages=109–123}}</ref>

In 1909, Vincenzo Giuliano, an immigrant from Calabria, Italy and his wife Maria Oliva founded ''La Tribune Italiana d'America'', known today as ''The Italian Tribune'', which circulates throughout southeastern Michigan.  A second newspaper founded by a Catholic order of priests, '' La Voce del Popolo'' also served the Metro Detroit community until the 1920s, when that newspaper merged with ''La Tribuna Italiana d'America''.  Upon Giuliano's death in the 1960s, his family continued the paper.