Is born Open, the online journal of which Enrico Mentana he is publisher, editorial director and sole director. The director in charge will instead be Massimo Corcione. More than five months have passed since the day the director of TgLa7 announced that he would launch a new newspaper, entirely built by young journalists. 25 editors were selected, including 18 trainees and 4 profiles of web experts, average age 30 years.
“It was a bet and also a promise. Giving birth to a newspaper directly on the web: a triple generational leap, for the technology, for the age of those who have been chosen to create it, and for that of who we would like to read it, together with those who may not be young anymore, but have still hungry for new information. A post journal, open to the new, to contamination, open 24 hours a day, open to contributions and criticisms. OPEN, in fact”, reads the opening page of the site.
The new newspaper it is read online and on app, for now only available on Android, but will soon also arrive on iOS. There are seven sections: Close-up, The world, Our stories, The news, The economy, Sounds and visions, Sport. The director in charge is instead Massimo Corcione, former director of Sky Sport and deputy director of Tg5 when Mentana was his superior. Together with Corcione also Serena Danna, in the role of deputy director, and Sara Menafra, as manager of the Rome office.
The publishing company of the newspaper is Gol – Giornale On Line – non-profit social enterprise Srl with a capital of 10 thousand euros. There are two partners: Enrico Mentana who paid 9.900 euros and holds 99% of the company and the lawyer Giampiero Falasca, labor law expert and partner of the international law firm Dla Piper, who paid 100 euros and holds 1 %. Furthermore, Dla Piper "offered to carry out the legal and corporate procedures pro bono", as the director explained to Il Sole 24 Ore.
Ten thousand euros are the minimum capital for the company, but to launch the project Mentana paid 250.000. For the launch of the platform, advertising packages were placed for the first four weeks through Cairo Pubblicità, a company owned by Urbano Cairo, owner of La7 and shareholder of RCS.
“The goal will be to offer a tool for everyone, even for those who have abandoned or have not yet taken up the good habit of continuously informing themselves, and above all for those new generations that are almost always snubbed and ignored by the Italian system. It will be open to the new, open to all ideas, open to all contributions”, explained Enrico Mentana in one of the posts that accompanied the creation of the journal.
