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Top 100 Journalists in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest journalists in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 371 journalists tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Benito Mussolini, Laura Boldrini and Enrico Mentana lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4.1M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 109k, and the largest, Benito Mussolini, reaches around 1.5M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each journalist, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
76 James M. Cain 4.8k 44.3 47.9% Journalist
77 Douglas Preston 4.6k 36.4 57.6% Journalist
78 Anne Will 4.4k 48.2 39.2% Journalist
79 Mary McLeod Bethune 4.4k 48.7 100.0% Journalist
80 Manuel Belgrano 4.4k 36.8 73.2% Journalist
81 Daniel H. Pink 4.3k 40.7 39.0% Journalist
82 Nasrin Sotoudeh 4.3k 48.9 81.1% Journalist
83 Udo Ulfkotte 4.3k 54.6 69.9% Journalist
84 Linwood Barclay 4.2k 34.1 0.0% Journalist
85 Jomo Kenyatta 4.1k Journalist
86 Mike Wallace 4.1k 53.5 40.6% Journalist
87 Tom Brokaw 4.1k 47.9 74.3% Journalist
88 Karl Rove 4.1k 50.9 56.6% Journalist
89 Edith Bowman 4k 56.8 56.6% Journalist
90 Queen Letizia of Spain 4k 40.1 78.7% Journalist
91 Gilad Shalit 4k Journalist
92 Charles Duhigg 3.9k 33.8 46.7% Journalist
93 Victoria Coren Mitchell 3.8k 24.5 10.1% Journalist
94 Michael Parkinson 3.7k 54.4 49.5% Journalist
95 James Thurber 3.5k 44.3 0.0% Journalist
96 Chris Hayes (journalist) 3.5k 46.6 59.7% Journalist
97 Germaine Greer 3.5k 31.5 67.9% Journalist
98 Lynsey Addario 3.4k Journalist
99 Tawakkol Karman 3.4k 37.2 0.0% Journalist
100 Andrew Ross Sorkin 3.4k 42.9 27.5% Journalist

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each journalist by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest journalist in Italy?

Benito Mussolini currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.5M people in Italy.

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