Eighty years who changed Italy. From the liberation of Roma to the economic miracle. From the signing of the Atlantic Pact to the birth of the European Community, to the Mani Pulite revolution which saw the decline of the First Republic. The conquest of the Moon and the attack on the Twin Towers. The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the Watergate scandal which forced US President Richard Nixon to resign, even though he had “opened up” to Mao Tse-tung’s China. The kidnapping of the president of the Christian Democracy Aldo Moro, the Bologna massacre and the fedayeen attack on Fiumicino airport. Eighty years told from the front line, with interviews, investigations, analyses, scoops that have made investigative journalism the flag of Time which, to celebrate the anniversary, Wednesday 23 October will be on newsstands with a 64-page insert. A newspaper within a newspaper that tells, through the protagonists of these eight unrepeatable and unforgettable decades, a changing Italy.
Time sees the light thanks to a stubborn journalist-publisher, Renato Angiolillowhich manages to print the first issue while Rome is liberated by the Fifth Army of the US Army led by General Mark Wayne Clark and Italy is still at war. North of the Gothic Line there is shooting and Adolf Hitler is in power in Germany. Day after day Time informs us of the new world that is taking shape. The end of Nazi-fascism, peace won at a high price. The abdication of Vittorio Emanuele III and the accession to the throne of Umberto II, king for only forty days, forced into exile by the referendum of 2 June 1946 which archived the monarchy to open the doors to the republic.
DC, PCI and PSI, the parties that will dominate parliament for half a century. De Gasperi, Togliatti, Andreotti, Moro, Fanfani, Craxi, Berlinguer the protagonists of disputes, agreements and understandings. While the country is being reborn, rebuilding its industry, becoming motorised, and trying to forget the bombs with the songs of the Sanremo Festival. Domenico Modugno, Claudio Villa, Gianni Morandi and Mina are now in the spotlight. Federico Fellini’s visionary cinema replaces the neoralism of De Sica, Blasetti, Rossellini who had described, analysed, internalized the wounds of the Second World War, post-war poverty and the desire to be reborn despite everything. The XVII edition of the Olympics, in Rome, will turn the page on a country that has demonstrated all its value, in sport and in its desire to emerge. Italian comedy invents a new way of telling stories: ironic and light-hearted, puncturing Italian defects but not exempt from social criticism. Alberto Sordi becomes its symbol. While Gianni Letta arrives at the helm of as director, marking an intense, fruitful season. The sales of Time they fly, always “on the spot” in crime news, the news that makes the difference in Rome.
Rai celebrates its first TV stars. Mike Bongiorno, Pippo Baudo and Raffaella Carrà share the small screen. While 1968 turns (and overturns) the customs of Italians towards an unexpected modernity. The Contestation is the party of the hippies but it is also the tragedy of the Years of Lead, of the magistrates and journalists on their legs, of the Red Brigades. Which, with the kidnapping and killing of the president of the DC Aldo Moro, will also mark the end of that tragic season. Meanwhile, Europe sees the Berlin Wall collapse and the Iron Curtain vanish: The Soviet Union will vanish in the space of a summer to return to Russia.
They change publishers: Monti, Pesenti, Caltagirone, Bonifaci and arrive Time he is always on the front line gathering news. The directors succeed each other: Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, Franco Cangini, Marcello Lambertini, Giovanni Mottola. Mani Pulite and the “bribes” scandals erase an entire generation of politicians. New parties are born, often inspired by anti-System personalities, such as Umberto Bossi’s Northern League and Beppe Grillo’s 5 Star Movement. Driving the Time there are, among others, Maurizio Belpietro, Giampaolo Cresci, Giuseppe Sanzotta Franco Bechis, Roberto Arditti, Mario Sechi. Europe is experiencing a wave of limitless violence. This time due to Islamic terrorism, which claims victims in Paris, London, Copenhagen, Nice and Berlin. At the helm of the newspaper is the only (so far) female editor: Sarina Biraghi. Then the arrival of Gian Marco Chiocci and the major judicial investigations, with scoops on the Mondo di Mezzo investigation. Another change of ownership. With Angelucci a breath of renewal, the strengthening of the website in an increasingly digital and international reality. And again “exclusive” with the revelation of the secret papers of the Moro Case kept for forty years in the British archives. The “top secret” documents of the murder of banker Roberto Calvi. And Rome sings with Maneskin, a rock group that will win the Sanremo Festival in 2021 and will sell 40 million records in just three years. The economy is reborn after the darkness of the Covid pandemic. And yet another change at the newspaper, with the arrival of former senator Tommaso Cerno as director. The Time Machine and the artists’ newsstand are born, a space where you can conduct interviews, create investigations, analyze reality, created in thenews kiosk in front of the historic headquarters of the newspaper: Palazzo Wedekind,
Perhaps not everyone knows that the first “exclusive” de Time dates back to 1944: the publication of the Diaries of Galeazzo Ciano, the Foreign Minister and son-in-law of Benito Mussolini, shot for betraying the Duce. The last one scoop it’s these days: the MeloniGate and the revelation of the secret email of a Supreme Court magistrate to “remove” Italy’s first female prime minister. In between, eighty exciting years always on the front line.
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