The days of the Ticino weekly Il Caffè are numbered
The last issue of the Ticino free weekly Il Caffè will be published on July 4, on the eve of the usual summer break. This was announced by the newspaper's publishers, Rezzonico Editore and Corriere del Ticino, in Sunday's edition.
They thus confirmed a report in the French-speaking Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps from Thursday. Il Caffè is read by 70,000 Ticino residents every weekend.
"Il Caffè and Editor-in-Chief Lillo Alaimo, who will retire in the summer, will say goodbye to their readers on Sunday, July 4," reads a note on their own behalf in Sunday's edition. "At the end of August, a new weekly newspaper, La Domenica, appear." It will be held at the headquarters of the Corriere del Ticino produced in Muzzano near Lugano.
The journalistic and technical staff of Il Caffè will move from the current editorial office in Locarno to Muzzano. Since 2017, the editorial team, including the editor-in-chief, has comprised six people.
The new weekly newspaper is edited by Paride Pelli, the editor-in-chief of the Corriere del Ticino will be routed. The paper edition will be free every Sunday. The online edition, on the other hand, will be chargeable or available to subscribers of the Corriere del Ticino be accessible.
Il Caffè was founded in 1994 by Locarnese journalists Giò Rezzonico and Lillo Alaimo and distributed free of charge on Sundays at newsstands and in public places. Il Caffè became known with in-depth and sometimes uncomfortable research.
In 2000, the newspaper had uncovered the scandal of the so-called "Ticinogate". The legal-political case involved an international cigarette smuggler who had bribed a well-known Ticino judge. (SDA)
