A report on Agenzia Stefani

Guglielmo Stefani founded the Agenzia Stefani, which became the most important press agency in Italy from the mid-19th century to World War II, in Turin in 1853.

In January 1945, three representatives of the major political forces of the Italian Resistance, Giuseppe Liverani, managing director of "Il Popolo" (The People), Primo Parrini, managing director of Avanti!, and Amerigo Terenzi, CEO of L'Unità, advanced the possibility to organize a news agency as a cooperative of newspapers, not controlled by the government nor private groups, replacing the work of the Agenzia Stefani, moved to Milan to meet the information needs of the Italian Social Republic.

Guglielmo Stefani (5 July 1819 – 11 June 1861) was an Italian journalist and founder of the influential press agency Agenzia Stefani.

Manlio Morgagni (June 3, 1879 in Forlì-Cesena – July 26, 1943 in Rome) was an Italian Fascist, journalist, former mayor of Milan, former member of the Senate of Italy, and director of the prominent news agency Agenzia Stefani during a period when it was closely aligned with the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini.

Ernesto Daquanno (Rome, 7 January 1897 – Dongo, 28 April 1945) was an Italian journalist during the Fascist regime, the last director of Agenzia Stefani, Italy’s main press agency.

Among them were Italo Balbo, Emilio De Bono, Michele Bianchi and Cesare Maria De Vecchi, future leaders of the March on Rome; Manlio Morgagni, the future president-general manager of the news agency Agenzia Stefani, and people of different backgrounds, cultural experiences and political views: nationalists, veterans of World War I, Arditi, Futurists, fascist syndicalists, and Italian republicans.

He continued to collaborate with Mussolini in the Italian Social Republic, where he directed the official press agency Agenzia Stefani.