Italy's three-wheeled newsagent revs up against crisis

Every morning, the instantly recognisable whirr of Andrea Carbini's three-wheeler fills this Milan square, where he throws open his mobile newsagent's doors for a news-hungry and largely elderly clientele. The problem is national: from 2009 to 2019, Italy lost nearly a quarter of its newsagent's, tumbling from 18,000 to 14,000, according to Unioncamere-Infocamere, the federation of chambers of commerce. Simultaneously, newspaper sales are plummeting: just 2.2 million newspapers are now sold each day in Italy, down from 5.5 million in 2007, according to ADS.