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Vicente Jorge Silva passed away, old director-attached of Expresso, later founder and director of Public. It was the diary itself to give the news of death, at the age of 74. He also directed the Commerce of Funchal, the city where he was born, on November 8, 1945.
Besides being a journalist, Vicente Jorge Silva was a politician and filmmaker. He was even a deputy for the Socialist Party, elected by the Lisbon constituency, a role that he later confessed not having liked to perform.
At just 15 years old, when he was “a bit rebellious”, he was forced to drop out of high school, due to problems with the PIDE. “I had to drop out of high school, because my father thought it was dangerous, he had some reasons to think so,” he admitted. Inherent freedom was dangerous during the Estado Novo period.
“He was not a good student,” he confessed, “he was a permanent rebel.” The same dissatisfaction that, at an early age, was already a harbinger of the brand that would end up in journalism. “They called me to the PIDE for writing things in the newspapers that I shouldn’t have done. I dare to write in the newspapers without being old enough for that, it was already a sign of rebellion that bothered them, ”recalled Vicente Jorge Silva.
He lived in France, where he worked in a glue factory, then went to England to wash dishes in a hotel.
He returned to Madeira in 1966 to breathe new life into the regional newspaper “O Comércio do Funchal”, which three years later conquered continental readers, especially those from a more left-wing political area. He has always considered himself a left-wing Democrat.
He came to Expresso in 1974, where he was deputy director and helmsman for the launch of “Expresso-Magazine.” In the last interview he gave to the weekly, he recalled the moments when Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, when he was its director, galvanized the newsroom by getting on a table in recent days.
He accepted a new challenge in 1990, when he decided to found and run the newspaper “Público”. As a journalist, he was distinguished with two awards, among which the Cupertino Miranda Award stands out, considered the most relevant at that time in Portuguese journalism.
“For someone who is a journalist at heart and soul, it is very difficult to adapt to the limitations of the political world. It is not possible for us to change our skin and our soul,” he said during an interview with RTP.
Cinema was the oldest passion and, in the seventh art, Vicente Jorge Silva’s gaze conceived films such as “O Discurso do Poder”, “Vicente Fotografo” or “Porto Santo”, his latest work, exhibited at the International Festival of Geneva. .
