Biography of Ferruccio De Bortoli

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May 20, 1953
Ferruccio De Bortoli was born in Milan on May 20, 1953 day. Venetian origins, from the area of Belluno, began his career as a professional journalist at the age of twenty, in 1973; working as a trainee at "Corriere dei ragazzi". Subsequently writes for the Corriere di Informazione "," Corriere della sera "and" European ". Meanwhile he perfected his studies and graduated in law at the University of Milan. Back to "Corriere della sera" in 1987 as editor in Chief of industry economy.
In 1993 the Director Paolo Mieli promotes Ferruccio De Bortoli Deputy Director; a few years later, in 1997, will take over the leadership of the courier, the first Italian newspaper. The Director De Bortoli signature pages of the newspaper for six years intense; During her Regency faces the disappearance of one of the most important Italian journalists, Indro Montanelli, and Maria Grazia Cutuli, a journalist killed in a bombing in Pakistan in 2001. During these years De Bortoli news related to the attacks of September 11, 2001 manages, travels to New York to ask the writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to get back to writing articles, after eleven years of silence. On September 29, 2001 will be released in the Corriere article by Oriana Fallaci "the rage and the pride", to be followed by the eponymous book. Ferruccio De Bortoli is leaving the newspaper via Solferino day May 29, 2003, declaring officially that the cause would lie in private reasons, but that would be due to conflicts with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who would have moved the direction of the newspaper.
Let the courier keep in house Rizzoli assuming appointed Managing Director of Rcs Libri. After columnist for La Stampa, in 2005 takes over "Il Sole 24 Ore"; It will also be managing editor of the most important national economic newspaper linked nomination strongly supported by then President of Confindustria, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo. During the election campaign of 2006 is the moderator of the Conference held in Vicenza Confindustria biennale, which houses the two would-be premier Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi. After a period of political arguments about switching the vertices Rai, at the beginning of the month of March 2009 is offered to Ferruccio De Bortoli was President of Rai, but refuses to stay in the Sun 24 hours. A few weeks later leaves the direction of business daily to become-March 30, 2009-the new Director of the Corriere della Sera.
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