(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 07 – VITTORIO MONTI, AN EXTINCT PANDA. THE CRAFT OF THE SPECIAL ENCOUNTER (Giraldi Editore, pp. 140, 15 euros) Always on the side of the reader, never a party card and not even a day in the editorial office because he is always on the street, consuming his shoes, as a special correspondent. This is how Vittorio Monti’s journalistic career could be summarized, a life at Corriere della Sera, author of “An extinct panda”, in bookstores from 3 December with Giraldi Editore.
Not a manual, but an “in / training” novel, the book reveals to the reader the background of the journalist’s profession before the advent of the internet and social networks. Monti retraces his own emotional memory, tells anecdotes and goes back into the facts and misdeeds that have now become history, relying only on his own memories and following the lesson of Piero Ottone, its first director: “What you don’t remember would not be interesting for readers “. All around, in dense and brilliant pages, his life and his passion for stories, from the first journalistic collaborations to the great reports made for the Corriere della Sera up to the prestigious Saint Vincent Award, without forgetting the mistakes and gaffes, in addition to tricks of the trade and at the backstage of an era, populated by famous personalities from politics, news and entertainment alongside front page journalists. (HANDLE).
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