Alberto Cavallari

Alberto Cavallari
Alberto Cavallari at home: Paris, 24 Avenue Charles Floquet
Born	(1927-09-01)1 September 1927 Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Died	20 July 1998(1998-07-20) (aged 70) Levanto (La Spezia), Liguria, Italy
Resting place	Bettola (Piacenza), Italy
Residence	Milano, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	High school
Occupation	Writer, journalist, political commentator
Years active	1950s–1990s
Known for	Editor, Corriere della Sera, 1981–1984
Home town	Milano, Lombardy, Italy
Spouse(s)	Marisa Astorri
Children	Paolo and Andrea
Parent(s)	Enrico and Dirce Bongiorni

Alberto Cavallari (1 September 1927, in Piacenza – 20 July 1998, in Levanto) was an Italian journalist and writer.

The son of storekeeper Enrico (Piacenza, 1894–1972) and housewife Dirce Bongiorni (Casa Celli di S. Lazzaro, 1900 – Piacenza, 1969), he had an elder brother, Oreste. In 1954 he married Maria Teresa Astorri, with whom he had two sons: Paolo and Andrea.

He began his career founding the magazine Numero, (1945–1946), on which artists Ennio Morlotti, Emilio Vedova and others published the Manifesto del Realismo (also known as Oltre Guernica), and collaborating with Italia Libera (1945), official newspaper of Partito d'Azione, Corriere Lombardo (1947) and Libertà, a newspaper of Piacenza.
Later he worked for the magazine Epoca (as a copy editor, 1950–1953), for the newspapers Corriere della Sera (as a reporter, 1954–1969) and Il Gazzettino, Venice (as editor in chief, 1969–1970). In 1971 Cavallari was a political commentator for TG2 (television news) (1971). After being head of the Rome office of Europeo (1972–1973), he became correspondent from Paris for La Stampa (1973–1975) and Corriere della Sera (1977–1981). He was the editor in chief of Corriere della Sera in the period 1981–1984, when the newspaper was involved in the investigations on the P2 Masonic Lodge; and political commentator for La Repubblica from 1984 until his death in 1998.

Cavallari taught journalism at the Panthéon-Assas University (1978–1989) and held numerous seminars at the University of Pavia. In 1984, he became a member of the European Institute for the Media, first at the University of Manchester, and then at the University of Düsseldorf.