Roberto Civita & family
Roberto Civita & family was bornon 9 August 1936 in Brazil, is President of the Management Board and Editorial Director, Abril GroupPresident of the Management Board and Editorial Director, Abril Group. Roberto Civita, who inherited a media group started by his father and turned it into one of Brazil's largest magazine publishers, died on May 27, 2013 due to complications from an aneurysm, according to his media company, Grupo Abril. Civita's father Victor founded Abril in 1950; Roberto took over when his father died in 1990. The group employs some 7,000 people. Its Editora Abril arm publishes some of Brazil's most read magazines, including the newsweekly Veja, which Roberto Civita founded in 1968. His family also owns a majority of publicly traded education firm Abrill Educacao. Civita was born in Italy, moved with his family to the U.S. and then to Brazil. He got a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree in sociology from Columbia University. Civita is survived by his second wife, Maria Antonia; three children from his first marriage, Giancarlo (who will take his place as the head of Abril), Roberta and Victor; and six grandchildren.
| 2013 | $4.9 Billion |
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| 2018 | $4.9 Billion |
Following this revelation, a May 2012 article in Mino Carta's CartaCapital compared Civita to the controversial British publisher, Rupert Murdoch, because of his effective control of so much of the Brazilian media and the use of methods that were less than ethical
"During that 2007 interview, Civita also said he did not oppose his reporters using material discovered in wiretaps, even if they were not legally authorized
"Searching for capitalization, in May 2006 Civita sold 30% of the Editora Abril to the South Africa's media conglomerate Naspers
He took command of all operations in 1990, after the death of his father Victor
In addition to serving as a member of the Board of Governance of the Instituto Millenium, Civita was on the Board of Overseers of the International Center for Economic Growth (founded in 1985 with headquarters in Panama)
In 1982 Civita became president of the Grupo Abril, which had become one of the largest publishers in Brazil
Decades later, Civita and Carta appeared to defend their actions related to Veja in the 1970s
" It started in 1969 and did not end until 1976, when he resigned (or was fired, according to other sources)
Mino Carta, co-founder and former managing editor of Veja (between 1968 and 1976), said that the military government's censorship imposed on the magazine was "very harsh
Like other publishers, Civita struggled to maintain press freedom under the long years of the repressive military government that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985
In more recent years, he married Maria Antônia NetoCivita returned to Brazil in the mid-1960s, to assume various positions at Editora Abril and organize a radical change in Brazilian journalism
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In 1949, the family moved to São Paulo, Brazil, where his father, Victor Civita, had founded the Editora Abril, first publishing comic books under license from the Walt Disney Company
His family moved to New York City in 1938 after passage of the Race Laws in Italy
Roberto Civita was born on 9 August 1936 in Milan, Italy to Sylvana and Victor Civita, who worked in publishing
