Ernesto Assante

Ernesto Assante
Born12 February 1958 (1958-02-12)
Naples, Italy
Died26 February 2024 (2024-02-27) (aged 66)
Rome, Italy
OccupationMusic critic

Ernesto Assante (12 February 1958 – 26 February 2024) was an Italian music critic, essayist and journalist. He has been described as 'a prophet of contemporary journalism back in the 1990s'.[1]

Life and career

Born in Naples, Assante started his career as a collaborator of some Roman private radios and as a music journalist for the newspapers Quotidiano dei lavoratori [it] and Il manifesto.[2][3] Starting from 1978, he was a long-time collaborator of La Repubblica, for which he served as editor-in-chief, and also founded its official website repubblica.it and directed the Kataweb portal.[2]

Later, he collaborated with numerous publications, notably Rolling Stone, L'Espresso and Rockol,[4] wrote numerous books, and was also a radio and television writer and occasional presenter, a festival artistic director, and a lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2][3]

Assante died of heart attack on 26 February 2024, at the age of 66.[2]

References

  1. ^ Niola, Gabriele (27 February 2024). "Ernesto Assante è stato il profeta di un nuovo modo di essere giornalisti". Wired Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d Laffranchi, Andrea (26 February 2024). "Morto Ernesto Assante: dalla fine degli anni 70 raccontava con passione rock e tecnologia". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Assante, Ernesto". Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  4. ^ Giraud, Claudia (27 February 2024). "Morto il giornalista musicale Ernesto Assante". arTribune (in Italian). Retrieved 7 May 2024.