Piero Ottone

Piero Ottone  link (Journalist,editor)
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Born	3 August 1924 Genoa, Italy
Died	16 April 2017 Camogli, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Italian journalist and editor who attended several Bilderberg meetings

Pier Leone Mignanego (pseudonym Piero Ottone) was an Italian journalist and editor who attended several Bilderberg meetings

Career

In the summer of 1945, while attending university in Turin, Ottone began his journalistic career, bringing news from the province to the newspaper Gazzetta del Popolo, directed by Massimo Caputo. His debut came with the review of a book Mission to Moscow, containing the memories of the US ambassador to the Soviet capital. He later became the London correspondent for the newspaper.

Later he landed at the main Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, for which he was a correspondent in Moscow.

From 1968 he was editor in chief of the Secolo XIX in Genoa; in 1972 he was recalled to Milan to lead the new course of Corriere della Sera, which the editorial director Giulia Maria Crespi wanted to give a less conservative line. It was Ottone who fired Indro Montanelli in October 1973, in agreement with the owners, after long months of disagreements. Other signatures of the Corriere followed Montanelli to the new newspaper he founded: il Giornale Nuovo. When in 1977 Montanelli was kneecapped by the Red Brigades, Ottone was criticized for not having placed the news on the front page. Under his direction, in January 1973, Pier Paolo Pasolini began the collaboration with Corriere, also thanks to Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei.

After the transfer of Corriere to the Rizzoli corporation, Ottone was reconfirmed by the new publisher, but in 1977 he voluntarily resigned. He then moved to Mondadori as a consultant for periodicals and television.

In the last years of his life he sporadically wrote editorials in la Repubblica.

He died on 16 April 2017 in Camogli, where he had resided for many years.