From his early days as a young print journalist at Momento-Mattino in Rome and La Gazzetta del Popolo in Turin, through his later roles as presenter and director of TG1, and then his move to Fininvest in the late 1980s — first as director of Studio Aperto and later of TG4, where he remained the face of the network until 2012. Born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) on June 24, 1931, in his seventy-year career Emilio Fede — who has passed away at the age of 94 — spanned every form of television journalism: starting with his entry into RAI in 1958 as host of the program “Il Circolo dei Castori” alongside Enza Sampò, considered the first woman on Italian television to go beyond the role of showgirl. However, the journalist would devote the majority of his career to television news and investigations, first at RAI (where he became an exclusive partner in 1961) and later at Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest. Fede was a special reporter in Africa for eight years, covering and reporting on decolonization in over 40 African countries, as well as the changes and demands that swept Italy in the late 1960s.