Vittorio Feltri

Vittorio Feltri (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian ex journalist and editor in chief.

Vittorio Feltri
Born25 June 1943
Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy
Years active1962–
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Political partySocialist Party (Before 1994)
Independent (1994–2005; 2009–present)
Liberal Reformers (2005–2009)
Spouse(s)Maria Luisa (died 1968)
Enoe Bonfanti (m. 1969)
ChildrenSaba, Laura, Mattia, Fiorenza

Biography

Feltri was born in Bergamo, Italy. He obtained the degree in Political Science and started his career as journalist in 1962, writing film reviews for the local newspaper L'Eco di Bergamo. In 1977 he moved to the Corriere della Sera.

In 1993 Feltri refused the offer of Silvio Berlusconi to get involved in Fininvest. The next year he agreed to become editor of il Giornale, controlled by Berlusconi, after its founder Indro Montanelli left. He was its editor until 1997. In the same period, he contributed to other newspapers and magazines, like Panorama, Il Foglio and Il Messaggero. In 2000, he founded the right-wing newspaper Libero, which he ran until 2009. In August 2009, he once again became the editor of Berlusconi's il Giornale.

In January 2015, he was nominated candidate for President of Italy by Lega Nord and Brothers of Italy.

He is an atheist.[1]

Controversy

In December 2011, the Court of Milan sentenced Feltri to compensate the former Federation of the Greens Senator, among the founders of Arcigay, Gianpaolo Silvestri with 50 thousand euros for a homophobic insult.[2]

In 2017, Feltri said that Asia Argento should be thankful that Harvey Weinstein had forced oral sex on her.[3]

In 2019, he expressed anti-semitism views against journalist David Parenzo and claimed that Jews have "bored" him with the Holocaust.[4]

In April 2020, during a television show, Feltri considered southern Italians as "inferior people". His words have caused controversy around Italy.[5]

gollark: i bet I would look *way* more productive if I just talked about all the stuff I didn't do.
gollark: Hmm. Firefox is fine with rendering the weird characters, discord on my phone is not.
gollark: I mostly just stick TV and whatever on in the background while doing other stuff, it is *not* engaging enough for me to exclusively look at it.
gollark: Troubling. I guess continents are poorly defined.
gollark: I don't think there's any continent called "Australia", it's Oceania or something.

References
  1. (in Italian) Davide Milosa, "Caso Boffo, Vittorio Feltri verso la sospensione dall'ordine dei giornalisti", Il Fatto Quotidiano, 23 September 2010.
  2. Feltri omofobo: è ufficiale
  3. Farrow, Ronan (27 October 2017). "Weighing the Costs of Speaking Out About Harvey Weinstein". The New Yorker.
  4. Vittorio Feltri: “Gli ebrei? Sono decenni che rompono i coglioni con la Shoah”
  5. Coronavirus, Vittorio Feltri contro i meridionali: "Inferiori". L'Ordine valuta il danno di immagine
Media offices
Preceded by
?		 Editor in chief of BergamoOggi
1983–1984		 Succeeded by
?
Preceded by
Lanfranco Vaccari		 Editor in chief of L'Europeo
1989–1992		 Succeeded by
Daniele Protti
Preceded by
Ricardo Franco Levi		 Editor in chief of L'Indipendente
1992–1994		 Succeeded by
Pia Luisa Bianco
Preceded by
Indro Montanelli		 Editor in chief of Il Giornale
1994–1997		 Succeeded by
Mario Cervi
Preceded by
?		 Editor in chief of Il Borghese
1998–1999		 Succeeded by
?
Preceded by
?		 Editor in chief of Quotidiano Nazionale
1999–2000		 Succeeded by
Giorgio Mulé
Preceded by
Maurizio Belpietro		 Editor in chief of Libero
2000–2009		 Succeeded by
Maurizio Belpietro
Preceded by
Mario Giordano		 Editor in chief of Il Giornale
2009–2010		 Succeeded by
Alessandro Sallusti
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