Journalist Vicente Jorge Silva passed away

Vicente Jorge Silva died at dawn on Tuesday, at the age of 74. The journalist was the co-founder and first director of the newspaper Público. It was the newspaper itself that helped found the one that reported the death of Vicente Jorge Silva.

Born in Funchal, Madeira, on November 8, 1945, the journalist was forced to drop out of high school at age 15 due to problems with the PIDE political police. He did some work in France and England between 1963 and 1965. He returned to Portugal in 1966, after having opted for a Madeira newspaper with very little activity, the Funchal Trade.

After April 25, Vicente Jorge Silva joined Expresso in 1974, as deputy director, having launched the magazine for that weekly.

In 1989, the journalist left Expresso to lead the project to create the newspaper Público, which would be launched on March 5, 1990.

In between, Vicente Jorge Silva was also the director of short and feature films and also documentaries. Between 2002 and 2004, he was a deputy for the Socialist Party in the Assembly of the Republic.

Vicente Jorge Silva was also a columnist for newspapers such as Diário Económico, Diário de Notícias and Sol. He would write again for Público in 2016. The last text was published on August 9 of this year.