Italy's La Stampa adopts Berliner format

The Turn-based Italian daily, La Stampa, has adopted a full-colour Berliner format after a €70m (£47.3m) investment, largely funded by its major shareholder, Fiat. The redesigned paper is maintaining its traditional focus on the coverage of the country's north west provinces but will, as before, carry national and internail news. Its website has also been upgraded. La Stampa sells 307.000 copies a day, Italy's fourth largest daily circulation, but it has fallen in recent years. (Via Editors' weblog)