'''''L'Ora''''' (English: "The Hour") was a Sicilian daily newspaper published in Palermo. The paper was founded in 1900 and stopped being published in 1992. In the 1950s–1980s the evening paper was known for its investigative reporting about political corruption in Palermo and into the Sicilian Mafia, when the Italian Communist Party took ownership. The Mafia made it a target: a bomb exploded in the press room in 1958, and its journalists Cosimo Cristina and Giovanni Spampinato were murdered in 1960 and 1972, while investigative reporter Mauro De Mauro disappeared without trace in 1970.
'''''L'Ora''' (English: "The Hour") was a Sicilian daily newspaper published in Palermo. The paper was founded in 1900 and stopped being published in 1992. In the 1950s–1980s the evening paper was known for its investigative reporting about political corruption in Palermo and into the Sicilian Mafia, when the Italian Communist Party took ownership. The Mafia made it a target: a bomb exploded in the press room in 1958, and its journalists Cosimo Cristina and Giovanni Spampinato were murdered in 1960 and 1972, while investigative reporter Mauro De Mauro disappeared without trace in 1970.
==Foundation and early years== The paper was founded on the initiative of the entrepreneurial Florio family from Palermo with interests in shipping, shipbuilding, trade, the wine industry, fisheries, mining, metallurgy and ceramics. The first issue was published on April 22, 1900. The formal owner was Carlo Di Rudinì, the son of the former prime minister of Italy Antonio Di Rudinì, but the main shareholder and financier was Ignazio Florio Jr. The first editor of the paper until 1902 was Vincenzo Morello, one of the most respected Italian political journalists of the time. Before directing L'Ora, Morello had worked for La Tribuna, at that time the most widespread newspaper in the center-south of Italy. Other collaborators were Napoleone Colajanni, Francesco Saverio Nitti and Luigi Capuana. thumb|Early 20th-century advertising poster of L'Ora by Giovanni Mataloni|Giovanni Maria Mataloni From 1904 to 1907, the newspaper was edited by Edoardo Scarfoglio, already the founder and editor of the daily Il Mattino in Naples. L'Ora became a newspaper with a European outlook and agreements were made for the exchange of information with other major foreign newspapers including Le Matin of Paris, The Times of London and the U.S. daily The New York Sun''. A correspondent was sent to Tokyo and correspondence offices were opened in Vienna and Berlin. Many prestigious collaborators appeared in the newspaper's cultural pages, including Matilde Serao (Scarfoglio's wife), Luigi Pirandello, Salvatore Di Giacomo and Giovanni Verga.
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