Sandro Petrone

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sandro Petrone
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 2, 1954(1954-02-02)
Age	70
Date Of Death	2020-05-15
Country	Italy
Birth City	Naples
Horoscope	Aquarius

Sandro Petrone Biography

Sandro Petrone is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 2, 1954 in Naples, Italy. Sandro Petrone (2 February 1954 15 May, 2020) is an Italian anchorman and war correspondent in RAI, Italian State Radio and Television and worked as an editor of foreign news on TG2. He was an associate professor of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Rome La Sapienza as well as the University of Languages and Communication IULM in Milan and the author of a variety of publications. He began his career at the age of 18 as a copywriter for the family-owned advertising company, Octa Marketing and Communication (ASSAP – Assocomunicazione) and in this company, his own work gave life to the audiovisual industry. After his initial experiences at the private sector, he started his journalism career beginning with newspapers and then from 1979 onwards the radio station Rai where he ran programs and was involved in innovative initiatives, like Radiosoftware in 1982. This was the first attempt at radio broadcasting that utilized computers, and also created an interactive radio circuit that was able to interact with listeners. From 1987 onward the journalist has gained extensive global experience working for his role at the Brazilian Telemontecarlo (Rede Globo) as a foreign and home correspondents as well as anchorman and war reporter. He was hired by RAI from 1993, as an anchorman as well as a key foreign reporter. He has taught Mass Communication from 1989 both in Italy and around the world in several world-class universities and organizations including EJTA (European Journalist Training Association). The book he wrote, The Language of the News The tools and rules of journalism which was published by Rizzoli is currently at the second printing . He has developed a love to the performing arts especially in the areas of television and music from his early years as a an event planner and writer.

On July 8, 2010 the album Last Call – Notes From an International Correspondent was released. It contained eleven tracks of classic and new songs written by Petrone as well as a bonus track and one ghost track. A few tracks were co-written together with Tony Cercola and all were recorded with Martino De Cesare who plays all guitars. Numerous young musicians were involved in the recording of this album between several Italian cities as well as New York, in more than twelve studios.

Petrone died in Rome on 15 May 2020, at the age of 65. He was battling with an illness since 2017.

In August 2007 in the garden in the gardens of Piazza Giovenale in Rome, I came home blues, the first song in a new cycle, was born as a dedication to all the people of this world by the reporter. At the time the idea for a new musical project was born from Petrone’s encounter with music producer Martino De Cesare, from Apulia. From 2007 to 2008 the group recorded an album limited to a few copies entitled Alex returned (after an extended period) for the digital record label Inconscio Label. The project was recorded over the tour, which included 10 venues in Italy and across the globe, in informal recording studios set up in private residences with the help of new technology and with the help of musicians on the Internet.

Sandro Petrone Net Worth

Sandro Petrone is one of the richest Journalist from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandro Petrone 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As a War Correspondent In 1991, He was the first Italian to live-stream from liberated Kuwait in which he was with by the U.S Marines. Then, he covered wars in the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya. He was a reporter on the frontline throughout the War on terrorism, starting with on the day of 9th September 11 terrorist attacks within the U.S. and the March 11 attacks in Madrid. He covered the nuclear and political crises in Iran and also what is known as the Arab Spring, in Tunisia and Egypt. The journalist was the very first Italian journalist to cover important events with an own camera in the Gulf War, the collapse of the USSR and the conflict in Yugoslavia. He has worked for foreign correspondent office at New York, London, Paris and Moscow. He has been following all U.S. presidential elections since 1992, and has taken up a long-term residency within America. United States for complete coverage. Filmmaker who specializes in documentary his work was recognized with the Federchimica Award in 1988 with an investigation into factories that were high-risk. His behind the-scenes investigation of prostitution showed a drastic shift in the sex market in Italy. Additionally, he’s produced documentaries on Iraq, Iran, the U.S. Welfare Reform as well as in particular, the British Royal Family, and also on Italian musicians who immigrated into America. United States. In 1993, on the seven-episode series Antennopolis the host gave an honest account of the state of Italian television particularly the bias towards information that is political and the scandal of scandals like the Tangentopoli scandal.

Through his entire period that were “musical silence”, Petrone continued to work with Neapolitan drummer Tony Cercola. After the terror attacks within the United States of September 11 2001 as well as in the Second Gulf War, the massacre in Nasiriyah and the earthquake in San Giuliano, and the events of the 11 March in Madrid It was Cercola who pushed Petrone to resume his career as a composer to provide expression of the intense emotions that had been “kept in check by the daily recounting in journalism of such events”. After being awarded the very first City of Santa Marinella Award in 2003 for his collection of music Blues for the Blues (original Italian title Blues in Blu), Petrone began dedicating greater of the time to his music and building connections with the avant-garde music scene and encouraging the experimentation of younger Italian musicians.

Among his publications are his manual of television journalism, The Language of News (Rizzoli, 2011) and The Television Interview (2004). In 2003, he was awarded the Santa Marinella Award for “Blues for the blues”, a book which collects his songs from the seventies (currently out of print). The lyrics of Blues for the blues were the subject of analysis of the book “The Tale of the facts – The Journalism of Creative Space”, in the chapter entitled Pirandello, Prisco, Petrone …, by Franco Zangrilli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He collaborates with the magazine Il Mulino: Problems of Information, Angelo Agostini, editor.

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Sandro Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Sandro Petrone celebrates birthday on February 2 of every year.