George E. Bria
George E. Bria was born in Rome, Lazio, Italy on March 2nd, 1916 and is the Italian-American Journalist. At the age of 101, George E. Bria biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bria was born in Rome and immigrated with his family to Waterbury, Connecticut, at a young age. He graduated from Amherst College and Middlebury College and began his career as a journalist with the Waterbury Democrat and Hartford Courant.
Bria was hired by the Boston AP bureau in 1942, reporting on the Cocoanut Grove fire. The Italian- and French-speaking Bria was sent to the Rome AP bureau in May 1944 and wrote daily dispatches from the Allied front in Italy. Bria was flown to Milan in April 1945 to view the body of Benito Mussolini shortly after his execution, and was the first AP newsman to report on the surrender of German forces in Italy on May 2. After the war, Bria joined the post-war AP bureau in Germany, reporting on the Nuremberg trials and the Berlin airlift, before returning to Rome and New York.
Bria returned to the AP Foreign Desk in 1961 as a supervisory editor, known among subordinates for favoring brevity in reports, once stating that "the D-Day landings could be reported in 400 words". He was chief AP correspondent at the United Nations in 1972–74, before returning to his Foreign Desk editor's position. He retired in 1981. Bria continued in retirement as a freelance writer, publishing columns on gardening until 2002.