Italian Newspaper Stops Publication as Shareholders Fail to Agree to Rescue Deal

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By: Lizzy Davies | The Guardian

Ninety years and five months after it was founded by Antonio Gramsci, the leftwing Italian newspaper l'Unità is to suspend publication – perhaps indefinitely – this week after shareholders failed to agree on a way to keep it in business, said its journalists.

"End of the line. After three months of battles, they've managed it: they have killed l'Unità," said the paper's editorial committee.

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