Vito Taormina

It all began in the early Seventies, in Palermo, Italy, when I was just  about 5 or 6 years old. My father Salvatore, who was a journalist, would often take me to his workplace, Il Giornale di Sicilia, and we'd stay there until 2 am, waiting for the newspaper to roll out of the printing press.

 

The excitement to know the news before everybody else in town, the deafening sound of the printing works, the smell of the liquified lead flowing through the linotype machines, they all contributed to get that passion inside me early in life.

 

I knew I was going to be a journalist.
 

Fast forward to New York City, where I moved in 1985 when I was a 20-year old, I worked as a reporter and editor for the Italian daily newspaper Il Progresso. I was also a contributing writer from New York for Il Giornale di Sicilia and the news agency Italpress. Then, in 1996, I became the sport editor for America Oggi, the daily Italian newspaper in New York City.

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I kept writing for other Italian news outlets, too, such as the weekly Economy, and later I became a senior writer and editor for Panorama, the most sold weekly magazine in Italy.

In 2006, I founded Il Sole d'Italia, a bilingual Italian and Spanish magazine printed in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. In 2010 I was awarded the "Premio Italia-Mexico".

In 2015 I joined again America Oggi; I was in charge of the front page. Unfortunately, the newspaper suspended publication in February 2022 due to the Covid crisis.