Dan Iannuzzi
Canadian newspaper publisher
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| Intro | Canadian newspaper publisher | |
| Places | Canada | |
| was | Publisher Newspaper publisher | |
| Work field | Business Journalism | |
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| Birth | 24 February 1934 | |
| Death | 20 November 2004 (aged 70 years) |
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Daniel Andrèa Iannuzzi, CM OOnt (February 24, 1934 – November 20, 2004) was a Canadian entrepreneur, journalist, and broadcaster.
A third generation Italian Canadian, Iannuzzi was born in Montreal. He moved to Toronto in 1954 and founded the Italian-Canadian newspaper Corriere Canadese. He produced multilingual TV programs for Toronto's Citytv from 1972 to 1979 and in 1979, he launched the world's first multilingual television station, CFMT-TV, initially broadcasting in 24 languages.
In 1989, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for being "a pioneer in multicultural communications and a significant contributor to Toronto's Italian community".
Through his ownership of Multimedia Nova Corporation he owned and published the following community newspapers throughout the Greater Toronto Area and in Quebec:
Town Crier Community Newspapers
Corriere Canadese (Italian language)
Tandem magazine (English language newspaper for the children of Italian immigrants)
Correo Canadiense (Spanish language)
O Correio Canadiano Nove Ilhas (Portuguese language)
Insieme (Italian language)
He died in Rome following a cardiac arrest.