Ernesto Assante
{{Short description|Italian music critic (1958–2024)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|12 February 1958}}
| birth_place = Naples, Italy
| death_date = {{death-date and age|26 February 2024|12 February 1958}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
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| occupation = Music critic
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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'.{{cite news |last1=Niola |first1=Gabriele |title=Ernesto Assante è stato il profeta di un nuovo modo di essere giornalisti |url=https://www.wired.it/article/ernesto-assante-morto-carriera-ricordo/ |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=Wired Italia |date=27 February 2024 |language=it-IT}}
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 {{Interlanguage link|Quotidiano dei lavoratori|it}} and Il manifesto.{{cite news |last1=Laffranchi |first1=Andrea |title=Morto Ernesto Assante: dalla fine degli anni 70 raccontava con passione rock e tecnologia |url=https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/24_febbraio_26/ernesto-assante-morto-addio-un-pilastro-critica-rock-f1c3e1e2-d4d4-11ee-b451-40ff65ace0ae.shtml |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=Corriere della Sera |date=26 February 2024 |language=it-IT}}{{cite web |title=Assante, Ernesto |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/eol-assante-ernesto/ |website=Treccani |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=it}} 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.
Later, he collaborated with numerous publications, notably Rolling Stone, L'Espresso and Rockol,{{cite news |last1=Giraud |first1=Claudia |title=Morto il giornalista musicale Ernesto Assante |url=https://www.artribune.com/arti-performative/musica/2024/02/ernesto-assante-morto/ |access-date=7 May 2024 |work=arTribune |date=27 February 2024 |language=it-IT}} 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.
Assante died of heart attack on 26 February 2024, at the age of 66.
References
==External links==
- [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luca-goldoni/ Luca Goldoni] at Treccani
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