Il Giorno is a daily newspaper based in the city of Milan, Italy.

Il Giorno was founded by the Italian businessman Cino Del Duca on 21 March 1956,[1] with the journalist Gaetano Baldacci, to challenge Corriere della Sera, also a daily newspaper published in Milan.

Later, because of a financial crisis, Italian public administrator Enrico Mattei and the state-owned oil company Eni[2] bought part of the publishing company.

[3] In 1959, Del Duca sold his stake to Eni and Italo Pietra became the newspaper's editor.

[4] In 1997, Eni sold Il Giorno to the Italian publishing company Poligrafici Editoriale, which also owns two other Italian newspapers (il Resto del Carlino and La Nazione) under the Quotidiano Nazionale network.