Maurizio Molinari

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Maurizio Molinari (born October 28, 1964 in Rome , Italy ) is an Italian journalist , editor-in-chief of the daily La Repubblica and former editor-in-chief of the daily La Stampa since April 2020 .

life and career

Molinari graduated in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in political science from La Sapienza University in Rome and in 1993 with a degree in history from the same university. He also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Manchester College at Oxford in the United Kingdom . Molinari lives in New York City and Turin . He has been married to Micol Braha since 1994. You have four children.

journalist

He started working as a journalist for La Voce Repubblicana , the newspaper of the Italian Republican Party , in 1984 .

As a journalist he has been reporting on the conflicts in the Balkans , the Middle East and the Horn of Africa since 1989 . The leaders he interviewed include US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama , US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , Madleine Albright and Henry Kissinger , UN General Secretaries Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon , Libyan Colonel Gaddafi and the Saudi Arabian King Abdallah , Israeli Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Peres , Israeli President Rivlin , PLO Chairman Arafat , Palestinian President Abbas , PKK commander Öcalan , Iraqi Kurdish President Barazani and Turkish President Erdogan .

Molinari joined La Stampa in 1997 and worked for over a decade as a correspondent, first from Brussels , later from New York City and since 2014 from Jerusalem and Ramallah , before returning to Turin in 2016 as editor-in-chief .

Molinari also writes for several Italian newspapers and news magazines, including Il Tempo , L'Indipendente , L'Opinione , Il Foglio and Panorama and is a regular guest commentator on Italian television, including La7 , Rainews24 , TgCom and SkyTg24 . He has been an occasional panelist on CNN , CBS and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , which aired on PBS .

Foreign policy , publishing and history are considered to be its main landmarks .

Editor-in-chief of La Stampa and La Repubblica

On November 26, 2015, Molinari was appointed the new editor-in-chief of the Turin daily La Stampa , replacing Mario Calabresi , who traveled to Rome to replace Ezio Mauro as editor-in-chief of La Repubblica . The President of EXOR , John Elkann , appointed Molinari held the deputy editor Massimo Gramellini and flanked him with Massimo Russo (former editor of Wired Italia ) as co-director.

In December 2017, Molinari also became editor-in-chief of GNN, the Gedi News Network, which includes La Stampa , Secolo XIX and the local newspapers of the former Finegil Group . On April 23, 2020, he became editor-in-chief of La Repubblica .

essayist

Between 2000 and 2018, Molinari was a prolific essayist , publishing an average of one book per year. Molinari is the author of 16 non-fiction books , all published in Italian : The Jews in Italy: An Identity Problem (1870–1938) (published by La Giuntina in 1991), The Left and the Jews in Italy (1967–1993) (Corbaccio, 1995 ), The National Interest (Laterza, 2000), Between the White House and the Botteghe Oscure: Interview with Lamberto Dini (Guerini and Ass, 2001), Wall Street in the Third Millennium (Fondazione Liberal), 2003, No Global? (Laterza, 2003), George W. Bush and the American Mission (Laterza, 2004), Italy from the perspective of the CIA (1948–2004) (Laterza, 2005), The Jews of New York (Laterza, 2007), Democratic Cowboys ( Einaudi 2008), Obama's Land (Laterza, 2009), The Italians of New York (Laterza, 2011), Shadow Government (Rizzoli, 2012), The Eagle and the Butterfly (Rizzoli, 2013), The Caliphate of Terror (Rizzoli, 2015 ), Jihad. Attack on the West (Rizzoli, 2015), duel in the ghetto (Rizzoli, 2017) and “Why It Did Happen Here” (Nave di Teseo, 2018). Molinati's book “ The Caliphate of Terror ” (2015) was described by Roberto Saviano as the book that “we should all read”.

Participation in the Bilderberg Conference 2017

Molinari was a participant in the 2017 Bilderberg Conference .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biografia di Maurizio Molinari. Retrieved May 26, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ^ Participants. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .