The historic director of the Italian press agency passed away in the past few hours at the age of 102
Sergio Lepri, historical director of the Italian press agency Handle, who drove for nearly thirty years, passed away in the past few hours at the age of 102 years. To celebrate its centenary, the September 24 two years ago, the agency had organized a forum, in which three directors compared, including Lepri, Giulio Anselmi and Luigi Contu, they had taken stock of the journalism of yesterday, today and tomorrow. The one of Hares it was in fact a life dedicated to journalism, which also leaves a tangible legacy made up of manuals for the profession, of which the last is from 2011, “News, language and style manual for written and spoken information“published by Rizzoli.
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Sergio Lepri, originally from Florence, after his high school studies and a degree in Philosophy with a thesis on the aesthetics of Benedetto Croce, arrives in the world of journalism during the Second World War, directing a clandestine newspaper of the Liberal Party.
In [1945enter at Nation of the people, organ of the Liberation Committee. Two years later he became editor-in-chief of the Newspaper of the Morning, the newspaper directed by Ettore Bernabei. In 1957 he was chosen by Amintore Fanfani as its spokesperson and then as head of the press service of his government from 1958 to February 1959. As unemployed, in 1960 he was hired by theItalian press agency Ansa, to be named first deputy director in January 1961 and then, a year later, director.
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Sergio Lepri it was also author of history books, such as “LStefani agency from Cavour to Mussolini“edited by Le Monnier in 1999 and republished in 2001. The last literary effort at 94 with Ettore Bernabei,”Please, thank you, sorry. Dialogue between a fervent Catholic (Ettore) and an unrepentant layman (Sergio)“.
From 1988 to 2004 he rose to the professorship as lecturer at Luiss University of Rome: he taught Information language and writing techniques in the Higher School of Journalism of the Faculty of Political Sciences. Throughout your life and career Hares has received many awards and honors, including the nomination a Knight of the Grand Cross.
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