What is ANSA?
ANSA — Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata — is Italy's national news agency. On its own pages it describes itself as a “Società Cooperativa privata costituita il 13 gennaio del 1945”, a private cooperative society constituted on 13 January 1945, whose share capital is held by the publishers of the main national and local newspapers.[1] That is the agency's own account of itself, given here with its attribution.
The Federazione Italiana Editori Giornali, the Italian newspaper publishers' federation, records ANSA in its member directory as a “SOC. COOP.” with its registered office at Via della Dataria 94, Rome, names Giulio Enrico Anselmi as legal representative and Stefano De Alessandri as chief executive, and lists Agenzia ANSA among its operations.[3]
The cooperative form matters for what the agency is on a media list: its owners are the newspapers that take its service, which is a different ownership structure from that of Italy's sports dailies and broadcasters.[1]
What does ANSA cover?
ANSA is a general news agency covering domestic and international news, with sport among its desks. Its sport file is organised by section: a story of 13 January 2026 on Serie A television audiences was filed under Sport and, within it, Calcio.[2]
That story is a working example of the agency's sports output. It reported that matchday 20 of the 2025-26 Serie A season on DAZN approached 6.67 million viewers, the second most-watched matchday of the season to that point, with Inter against Napoli drawing 2.1 million; ANSA put the average across the season's first twenty matchdays at 5.8 million, about 15 per cent above the equivalent point of 2024-25.[2]
ANSA describes its work as news gathering, publishing and distribution across multimedia platforms, and states that it maintains 22 local offices across 19 Italian regions and more than 70 offices and correspondence points on five continents.[1] That network is the structural reason a national agency appears on a list of sports media: it supplies the copy that other outlets carry.
How large is ANSA's audience?
A wire service's reach is not measured the way a newspaper's circulation or a broadcaster's ratings are, and no audience measurement for ANSA could be retrieved for this page. What the agency does publish is a financial figure: it states that in 2025 it recorded operating revenues of more than 64.6 million euro.[1]
The structural indicators it gives are the office network — 22 in Italy across 19 regions, more than 70 abroad — and the ownership of its share capital by the publishers of the main national and local newspapers, which is an indication of how widely its file is taken.[1][3]
Italian print and digital audiences are measured through Audicom's integrated research, which consolidated the former Audiweb and Audipress services, and no current brand-level digital audience figure for the agency's own website could be retrieved for this page.[4]
Since when has ANSA existed?
ANSA states that it was constituted as a private cooperative society on 13 January 1945.[1] That is the agency's own dating of its constitution; the date is given here as the agency's statement rather than adopted, and no independent instrument for it was retrieved.
Constitution, ownership and current management are three separate matters. The publishers who hold the share capital are not the same set of companies across eighty years, and the officers recorded by FIEG — Giulio Enrico Anselmi as legal representative, Stefano De Alessandri as chief executive — are current entries in that federation's directory rather than facts about 1945.[3]
The revenue figure the agency publishes, more than 64.6 million euro, is for the 2025 financial year.[1]
Why does ANSA matter in Italy's sport?
An agency appears on a sports media list for a different reason from a newspaper or a broadcaster: it is the wholesale supplier. ANSA's share capital is held by the publishers of the main national and local newspapers, and its file reaches those titles rather than only its own readers.[1]
Its sports desk files the same kind of material the specialist press files, including measured audience figures — its 13 January 2026 story reported Serie A audiences matchday by matchday.[2]
Italy's sports media structure has three national daily newspapers, two national broadcasting platforms carrying the football league between them and a public broadcaster with written sport obligations; the agency is the common upstream source that operates across all of them, with 22 domestic offices and more than 70 abroad.[1][5]
References
- ANSA — Chi siamo: legal form, constitution, offices and 2025 revenues. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- ANSA — DAZN: matchday 20 of Serie A approaches 6.7 million viewers, Sport/Calcio, 13 January 2026. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- FIEG — Federazione Italiana Editori Giornali, member record for ANSA. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Audicom — Audiweb and Audipress integrated audience research. Accessed 2026-09-19.
- Primaonline — Classifiche e trend diffusione quotidiani, ADS data for July 2026, 11 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-19.