Gigi Vesigna

Gigi Vesigna (8 February 1932 – 28 February 2015) was an Italian journalist and writer.

Born in Milan, the son of a business man of La Spezia and a schoolteacher from Apulia, at high school Vesigna started writing his first articles for the school newspaper.^[1] He began his career in the 1950s as a collaborator of the magazine Settimana TV.^[2] In 1961 he became a Mondadori employer and began working on the weekly magazine Teletutto.^[1] In 1973 he became the director of the magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, bringing the print run from 600,000 copies a week up to 3.3 million copies.^[1] He founded the Telegatto award and the musical event Vota la Voce.^[1] In 1985 he founded the cinema monthly magazine Ciak, and in 1995 the short-lived newspaper Il Telegiornale.^[1][2] He was one of the maximum experts of the Sanremo Music Festival, about which he wrote several books.^[1]

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