Pablo Piacentini Explained

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

Notes and References

1. Book: K. M. Shrivastava. News Agencies from Pigeon to Internet. 2007. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 978-1-932705-67-6. 250.
2. http://www.ips.org/institutional/our-global-structure/biographies/pablo-piacentini/ Pablo Piacentini
3. [Roberto Savio]
4. Thalif Deen, Pablo Piacentini: a Visionary Far Ahead of his Time, Inter Press Service, June 15, 2019.
5. Book: Andrew Graham-Yooll

   . Andrew Graham-Yooll. Andrew Graham-Yooll. The Press in Argentina, 1973-1978. 1979. Writers and Scholars Educational Trust. 978-0-904286-10-6.