Sergio Lepri, former director of Ansa, died
In 1957 he was appointed spokesman for Amintore Fanfani, national secretary of the Christian Democrats
The world of culture and journalism says goodbye to Sergio Lepri.
Director of Ansa from 1962 to 1990, he was 102 years old.
Born in Florence on September 24, 1919, he graduated in Philosophy and during the Second World War he was an infantry sergeant before joining, after September 8, in the Resistance with the Action Party and later with the Liberal Party.
Between 1943 and 1944 his first journalistic experience, with the clandestine newspaper of the Florentine PLI, "L'Opviso", a party of which he will be elected city secretary after the liberation.
In 1945 he began his apprenticeship in the newspaper La Nazione del Popolo, and the following year he became a professional journalist.
In 1957 he was appointed spokesman for Amintore Fanfani, national secretary of the Christian Democrats, and in 1958-59 Head of the Press Service of the Prime Minister with Fanfani as president. In September 1960 he was hired by Ansa, of which he became co-managing director in January 1961 and managing director in January 1962. He left the agency on January 15, 1990.
(Unioneonline / ss)
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