Pablo Piacentini (died 2017) was an Argentinian political scientist, journalist and activist. In 1964 he cofounded the Inter Press Service (IPS) with the Italian journalist Roberto Savio.[1]

Life

Born in Buenos Aires,[2] Piacentini was a student in Rome when he and Savio founded the Roman Press Service together in 1961.[3] The Inter Press Service grew out of the Roman Press Service in 1964. Piacentini served the IPS in various capacities: as Editorial Director, Chief Editor, Director of the Economics Service and head of the IPS Columnist Service.[2][4]

In 1974 Piacentini founded Tercer Mundo, an intellectual left-wing Argentinian monthly.[5]

Works

  • Chile: una tragedia americana, Buenos Aires: Ediciones de crisis, 1974
  • 'Terror in Argentina', Index on Censorship, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (1977) pp.3-7
  • (ed.) Story Earth: Native Voices on the Environment, San Francisco: Mercury House, 1993

References

  1. K. M. Shrivastava (2007). News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-932705-67-6.
  2. 1 2 Pablo Piacentini
  3. Roberto Savio, Pablo Piacentini has left us, Other News, March 2, 2017.
  4. Thalif Deen, Pablo Piacentini: a Visionary Far Ahead of his Time, Inter Press Service, June 15, 2019.
  5. Andrew Graham-Yooll (1979). The Press in Argentina, 1973-1978. Writers and Scholars Educational Trust. ISBN 978-0-904286-10-6.


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