Andrea Tempestini

Andrea Tempestini was born in 1986. He attended the Liceo Scientifico Luigi Cremona in Milan, graduating in 2005, then studied Scienze umanistiche per la comunicazione at the University of Milan. He completed an Erasmus placement at Cardiff University, in European Studies and at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and graduated with 110 e lode in 2008. He later trained at the Istituto per la Formazione al Giornalismo in Urbino.

Tempestini became a professional journalist in 2010. Before and around that date he worked at Il Sole 24 Ore on Norme e Tributi and regional pages, collaborated with Libero Mercato, and worked with Rai Corporation in New York. From late 2010 he was part of the small team that ran Libero's website. He advanced to digital editor of liberoquotidiano.it and vice director of Libero, overseeing the online newsroom, editorial hierarchy, SEO, video and social channels, and institutional contacts, while continuing to write for print. He created the sports podcast Sfighe - Storie di sport dove tutto e relativo. During Covid he rapidly set up remote production so the site could keep publishing. Colleagues remembered his early-morning press reviews, writing speed and insistence on treating digital journalism with the same seriousness as the newspaper.

Tempestini lived in Milan. Public tributes from colleagues described a private family life that included his sister, who raised the alarm when he could not be reached, and mentioned his partner Ambra and young children in affectionate newsroom remembrances. He kept ties to a house near the lake at Orino, where colleagues said he liked to mark his late-June birthday. Beyond those details, little about his private life was widely published.

Tempestini was found dead on the evening of 28 September 2026 in the cellar of his home in via Belinzaghi, Maciachini, Milan. He was 40 years old. His sister had contacted emergency services after about two days without news of him. Firefighters, Carabinieri from the Porta Garibaldi station and medical crews attended; doctors could only confirm that he had died. Investigators reported no signs of assault on his body. Further inquiries into the circumstances of his death continued. Senate president Ignazio La Russa, culture minister Alessandro Giuli and many colleagues expressed condolences to his family and to the Libero newsroom.

Tempestini is remembered as a driving force behind Libero's digital newsroom over nearly sixteen years, as a vice director who bridged print and online journalism, and as a colleague whose energy, craft and humour shaped a generation of web journalists at the paper. Tributes from political and cultural figures and from fellow reporters underlined his professionalism and the gap left by his death at 40.