Journalist Paolo Nizzola died suddenly

Paolo Nizzola, 72, has died. On Monday night he had presented the jazz concert of the Bollate Jazz Meeting, an association of which he was one of the founders, with his usual enthusiasm. Then, in the night, around three o’clock, the sudden illness. Struck by a cerebral hemorrhage, he was rushed to the hospital, but doctors’ attempts were not enough.

On his Facebook profile remains the last post dedicated to that “amazing evening,” which had closed the 28th edition of Jazz in Bollate. Messages of affection and closeness to the family have been multiplying since this morning.

His was a long and intense career. Once he had retired, he had decided to collect it in the book “Ho fatto solo il giornalista,” where he had retraced experiences and anecdotes between print media, radio and television.

The beginnings date back to the second half of the 1970s with the weekly “Luce.” This was followed by collaborations with “Avvenire” and Radio Cooperative in Rho, which hired him in 1980. Over time he had also worked with the Como Order and with “Settegiorni,” later coming to direct Radio Nord Italia.

In 1987 he joined Telelombardia, where his television career took shape: first envoy, then the face of the news program. Over the years he had taken on more and more important assignments, until he became editor-in-chief and, for about 20 years, head of information for the national Odeon-Telereporter circuit.

In addition to his work, Nizzola cultivated two great passions: jazz and local history. Through the blog Bollate Oggi he told, together with other enthusiasts, about places, characters and events in his city.