The champion of journalism who died on 21 March 2020 took his first steps in the pink pages. We remember him through his first piece: an interview with Germano, a Brazilian from AC Milan. It was January 22, 1965
Gianni Mura, who died on 21 March 2020 at the age of 74, was a son of the Gazzetta dello Sport. It was among the pink pages that he took his first steps in journalism, later becoming the champion recognized by all. He entered the Gazza when he was 19, by chance, thanks to a classmate from the Manzoni high school, daughter of the newspaper’s administrative director, who prompted him to present himself for the job. At the time, however, the young Mura had higher ambitions, as he himself told in the book “Tanti amori-Conversazioni con Marco Manzoni”: “La Gazzetta was not my favorite newspaper. Not only did I read Il Giorno and Il Corriere, but I thought that they should retire Moravia and the Diary of Africa and take me because I would have done it better. But I didn’t know anyone at Corriere, so I thought: ‘I’m going to this fucking Gazzetta, I’m there for four or five months, then I I graduated and, badly, I will teach French in Carate Brianza ‘.