Ernesto Assante
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| Born | 12 February 1958 (1958-02-12)
Naples, Italy
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| Died | 26 February 2024 (2024-02-27) (aged 66)
Rome, Italy
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| Occupation | Music critic |
Ernesto Assante (12 February 1958 – 26 February 2024) was an Italian music critic, essayist and journalist. He has been described as 'a prophet of contemporary journalism back in the 1990s'.[1]
Born in Naples, Assante started his career as a collaborator of some Roman private radios and as a music journalist for the newspapers Quotidiano dei lavoratori [it] and Il manifesto.[2][3] Starting from 1978, he was a long-time collaborator of La Repubblica, for which he served as editor-in-chief, and also founded its official website repubblica.it and directed the Kataweb portal.[2]
Later, he collaborated with numerous publications, notably Rolling Stone, L'Espresso and Rockol,[4] wrote numerous books, and was also a radio and television writer and occasional presenter, a festival artistic director, and a lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2][3]
Assante died of heart attack on 26 February 2024, at the age of 66.[2]
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