Carlo Gregoretti, a journalist and one of the founders of Espresso, died

The journalist Carlo Gregoretti, who made his debut at a very young age on the pages of the weekly “L’Espresso”, later becoming deputy director of “Panorama” and director of “Epoca”, died in Rome at the age of 91. The funeral will be held on Saturday 7 May at 10 am in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome. Born in Rome on November 12, 1930, Gregoretti began working in “Cronache” in his early twenties. He was the youngest of the small group of journalists with whom Arrigo Benedetti in October 1955 began to publish the weekly “L’Espresso”. He became known in the news for a series of articles concerning strange maneuvers that took place inside the Sifar, the Armed Forces Information Service dissolved in 1966. Among other things, Gregoretti in 1969 published an article entitled “General Gaspari accuses the former head of Sifar. Because De Lorenzo is still scary “, commenting on a letter sent by General Paolo Gaspari to the periodical to protect his integrity and against General Giovanni De Lorenzo, and for whom he was tried in Rome for defamation. Passed to” Panorama “, Gregoretti in the eighties was deputy editor of the weekly. When Mondadori attempted the television adventure, he edited “The specials of Retequattro”, an in-depth journalistic program broadcast on Rete 4 from 1982 to 1984. He was then director of the weekly “Epoca”. In 2015 the jury of the Arrigo Benedetti Award wanted to assign a special prize for “the example and the lesson of journalism” to Carlo Gregoretti, the youngest journalist who worked with Benedetti at the “Espresso”.