Ernesto Daquanno (7 January 1897 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian journalist during the Fascist regime, the last director of Agenzia Stefani, Italy’s main press agency.

A nationalist, futurist and personal friend of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, on 23 March 1919 he participated in the foundation of the Italian Fasces of Combat in Piazza San Sepolcro in Milan.

[3][4] He joined the Italian Social Republic immediately after its foundation in September 1943, becoming one of the leading journalists and editor of the Giornale Radio-EIAR, whose headquarters were moved to Milan.

During the period of the direction of Il Lavoro he wrote over thirty articles on the socialization of enterprises, the most important of which were collected in a booklet, La socializzazione delle imprese.

[3][5][6] After 25 April 1945, declaring that he wanted to make a last stand around Mussolini, he followed the dictator from Salò to Milan, then to Como and finally to Dongo, where he was captured and shot by the partisans.