Il Corriere della Sera was founded on March 5, 1876, by journalist Eugenio Torelli Viollier in Milan. The Milan-based daily covers politics, economics, world news, culture, sports, and entertainment. Since 1974, Corriere has been owned by RCS MediaGroup, a publicly traded multimedia publishing company. According to its mission statement, the newspaper aims to be “responsible, impartial, complete, accurate and understandable information” and be “free from any political and economic conditioning.”