Oliviero Beha

Oliviero Beha (14 January 1949 – 13 May 2017) was an Italian journalist, writer, essayist, TV, and radio host.

Oliviero Beha
Beha in 2011
Born(1949-01-14)January 14, 1949
Florence, Italy
DiedMay 13, 2017(2017-05-13) (aged 68)
Rome, Italy
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)Tuttosport
Paese Sera
Rinascita
Il Messaggero
Il Mattino
La Repubblica

Biography

Beha was born in Florence, and began work as a journalist in 1973 for the sports newspaper Tuttosport and for Paese Sera. During his stay in Madrid, he graduated and also practiced athletics for Real Madrid.

From 1976 to 1985, he worked for the left-oriented newspaper La Repubblica, dealing with sport and social themes, and wrote articles for several editions of the Olympic Games. In 1984, he published a report in which the result of the football match between Italy and Cameroon in the 1982 Football World Cup had been decided between the players before playing. After working also for the newspaper Rinascita, Il Messaggero and Il Mattino (Beha later worked also for the right-wing L'Indipendente), in 1987, he began hosting the TV show Va' pensiero, together with Communist journalist Andrea Barbato. The show was aired on Rai 3 and lasted until 1989.

In the following years, Beha provided TV specials about Italian and international themes for Italian state television, mostly for Rai 3, and hosted the show Un terno al lotto (1991) in which people seeking and offering jobs could met freely. The following year Beha launched Radio Zorro, a daily radio show aired on Radio Rai. The show, later rechristened Radio Zorro 3131, was cancelled in 2004, a period in which the right government coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi controlled Rai; the closure was followed by a series of legal suits by Beha against Rai.

Beha also wrote several books, including essays and poetry collections, which won several Italian literary prizes. Among his numerous activities in the 2000s, Beha has also written for the left newspaper L'Unità (2005–2008), and was a co-founder of Il Fatto Quotidiano in 2009. He died in Rome on 13 May 2017, aged 68.[1][2]

References
  1. "è morto Oliviero Beha, voce controcorrente del giornalismo italiano". Repubblica.it (in Italian). 13 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. "Morto il giornalista Oliviero Beha, aveva 68 anni". Il Messaggero (in Italian). 13 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
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