Ticino: New online free newspaper and stronger trade union newspaper

 
The media landscape in the canton of Ticino is on the move. In March, the Sunday newspaper Il Caffè is launching the online free newspaper Caffè quotidiano, which will be available to download from Tuesday to Friday shortly before the end of office hours. The link to the four-page print edition will be sent to Caffè subscribers. This means that Il Caffè, which is supported by Ringier and Rezzonico Editore, is ahead of Corriere del Ticino. The latter had published a free daily newspaper on a trial basis until October and then also started thinking about a free newspaper. According to the report in the Ticino newspaper, however, concepts that have been tried and tested elsewhere are hardly applicable to Ticino, which speaks in favor of the online model. On the one hand, commuter flows on public transport are too low, and on the other, the advertising market is already being fought over by the three daily newspapers Corriere del Ticino, La Regione Ticino and Giornale del Popolo.
A completely different innovation concerns the left-wing weekly newspaper Area. According to the Tessiner Zeitung, the trade union Unia, as majority owner, has effectively booted out the SP of the canton of Ticino, which holds a 20 percent stake in the newspaper. According to Unia's plans, Area will focus less on Ticino politics and more on issues for Italian-speaking trade unionists throughout Switzerland.