Editing Corriere della Sera (section)

=== The 21st century ===
{{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} had a circulation of 715,000 copies in 2001.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Adam|title=Europe's Top Newspapers|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|access-date=18 April 2015|work=Campaign|date=15 November 2002}}</ref> In 2002, it fell to 681,000 copies.<ref name="anrep" /> In 2003, its then editor Ferruccio de Bortoli resigned from the post.<ref name="esi" /> The journalists and opposition politicians stated that the resignation was due to the paper's criticism of [[Silvio Berlusconi]].<ref name="esi" />

In 2004, {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} launched an online English section focusing on Italian current affairs and culture. That same year, it was the best-selling newspaper in Italy with a circulation of 677,542 copies.<ref>{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor. Italy|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|work=Turku School of Economics and KEA|access-date=5 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411085843/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-italy_en.pdf|archive-date=11 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2007, the paper's website was listed 15th among the top 30 brands of the month in Italy, with over 4 million unique visitors, and behind only {{lang|it|[[la Repubblica]]}} among daily newspapers;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_070702_IT.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Nielsen&#x2F;/NetRatings comunica i dati Internet relativi al mese di maggio 2007: utenza e consumi in crescita rispetto ad aprile|website=Nielsen-Netratings.com|language=it|publisher=Nielsen&#x2F;/NetRatings|date=29 June 2007|page=2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025124301/http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_070702_IT.pdf|archive-date=25 October 2007|access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref> during the same month, the paper had sold about 594,000 copies compared to the circa 566,000 copies of ''{{lang|it|la Repubblica}}''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Macrì|first=Piero<!--[collaborators] Fioretti, Natascha; Foa, Marcello-->|date=February 2008|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/20642252.pdf|title=I giornali e internet verso un modello sostenibile|publisher=European Journalism Observatory|language=it|page=25|access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref> Its circulation in December 2007 was 662,253 copies;<ref name="esi" /> excluding digital copies, its circulation in December 2013 was 99,145 copies.<ref>[http://www.primaonline.it/2014/02/07/178569/ Circulation data]. ''Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa'' (in Italian). 7 February 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2023.</ref> By 2015, the paper had the country's highest circulation at about 308,000 copies.<ref name="Brändle et al. 2021, p. 136" /> One of the most visited Italian-language news websites, attracting over 2.4 million readers every day in July 2019,<ref>{{cite web|title=Audiweb: Italiaonline prima tra le concessionarie digital a luglio 2019|url=https://www.engage.it/datacenter/audiweb-italiaonline-prima-tra-concessionarie-luglio-2019/200251#VC9OWmycJ5kMV1Qm.97|work=Engage.it|access-date=18 September 2019|quote={{Lang|it|Sono, invece, La Repubblica, con 2,9 milioni di utenti unici e oltre 10.000 pagine viste nel giorno medio, Corriere della Sera, con 2,4 milioni di utenti unici e 7.600 pagine viste, e TgCom24, con 2,2 milioni di utenti unici e 8.100 pagine viste, i siti più visitati}}.|archive-date=20 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920121614/https://www.engage.it/datacenter/audiweb-italiaonline-prima-tra-concessionarie-luglio-2019/200251#VC9OWmycJ5kMV1Qm.97|url-status=dead}}</ref> the online version of the paper was the thirteenth most visited website in the country in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mazzoleni|first1=Gianpietro|last2=Vigevani|first2=Giulio|date=10 August 2011|url=http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/mapping-digital-media-italy-20130605.pdf|title=Mapping Digital Media: Italy|format=report|publisher=Open Society Foundation|page=22|access-date=29 June 2023|quote=According to Alexa, among the top 20 websites consulted in Italy, those for news are followed by portals, community sites and providers, and social networks. The website of the daily newspaper ''La Repubblica'' comes 10th (ahead of Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, YouTube, MSN, and others); Corriere.it, belonging to the daily ''Corriere della Sera'', comes 13th, and Gazzetta.it, the site of the sports daily ''La Gazzetta dello Sport'', 18th. More than half of the users, 52.6 percent, who consult the internet mainly for news still obtain information by going to the websites of the traditional news publishers: ''La Repubblica'', ''Corriere della Sera'', and ''Gazzetta dello Sport''. These are, in fact, the most popular newspapers in Italy.}}</ref>

In 2004, {{ill|Angelo Agostini (1959–2014)|lt=Angelo Agostini|it|Angelo Agostini (giornalista)}} categorized {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} as an institution daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-istituzione}}), alongside {{Lang|it|[[La Stampa]]}}, in contrast to the agenda daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-agenda}}) like {{Lang|it|la Repubblica}}, and the activist daily ({{Lang|it|quotidiano-attivista}}) like {{Lang|it|[[Il Foglio]]}}, {{Lang|it|[[Libero (newspaper)|Libero]]}}, and {{Lang|it|[[l'Unità]]}}.<ref>{{cite web|last=Saitta|first=Eugénie|date=April 2006|url=http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf|url-status=dead|title=The Transformations of Traditional Mass Media Involvement in the Political and Electoral Process|format=Conference Paper|location=Nicosia, Cyprus|publisher=European Consortium for Political Research|pages=5–6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623112724/http://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/a12f18f7-d877-4828-bcb0-8a213edb38b4.pdf|archive-date=23 June 2015|access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref> On 24 September 2014, {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} changed its [[broadsheet]] format to the [[Berliner (format)|Berliner]] format.<ref name="9sep">{{cite news|title=Italy: new Corriere della Sera - back to the future|url=http://www.adnative.net/switzerland/media-solutions/latest-promotions/promotion/detail/italy-new-corriere-della-sera-back-to-the-future-447/#.VHOHOVesUX4|access-date=24 November 2014|work=Publicitas|date=9 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304105320/http://www.adnative.net/switzerland/media-solutions/latest-promotions/promotion/detail/italy-new-corriere-della-sera-back-to-the-future-447/#.VHOHOVesUX4|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 7 March 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Italy]], {{lang|it|Corriere della Sera}} leaked a draft decree to put into lockdown several northern provinces particularly affected by the virus. The leaked news sparked a panic exodus to the south, and the threat of further contagion led to [[COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Giuffrida |first1=Angela |last2=Tondo |first2=Lorenzo |title=Leaked coronavirus plan to quarantine 16m sparks chaos in Italy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/leaked-coronavirus-plan-to-quarantine-16m-sparks-chaos-in-italy |access-date=22 March 2020 |date=8 March 2020}}</ref>