Paolo Mieli

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Paolo Mieli (2015)

Paolo Mieli (born February 25, 1949 in Milan ) is an Italian journalist and author of historical non-fiction. He was the director of the daily Corriere della Sera for many years .

Family and education

Paolo Mieli came from a Jewish family. His father Renato Mieli had immigrated to Italy from Alexandria, Egypt , went into hiding during the era of the racial laws of fascism in the Middle East, and returned to Italy as an officer of the United Kingdom in 1945, where he founded the Italian press agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata and joined the communist PCI connected.

Paolo Mieli started at L'Espresso at the age of 18 , for which he wrote - first under Eugenio Scalfari - for over 20 years. As a member of the extra-parliamentary movement Potere Operaio , he initially represented left-wing extremist positions in the 1968 movement and signed two open letters in 1971, in which, on the occasion of Giuseppe Pinelli's murder, among other things , he declared solidarity with violent left activists. He moderated his political views while studying the history of the modern era at the La Sapienza University under the influence of Rosario Romeo and Renzo De Felice . Mieli completed his studies with the academic degree of Laurea (approximately: Magister Artium ). De Felice supervised his thesis on fascism.

Mieli is married to the journalist Barbara Parodi Delfino and has three children.

Professional career

Mieli worked at L'Espresso as a history expert and began to publish his own monographs, especially popular non-fiction books on contemporary history.

From the 1980s he worked for the largest daily newspapers in the country, first from 1985 at La Repubblica and from 1987 at La Stampa , whose director ( Italian Direttore responsabile ) he became on May 21, 1990. On September 10, 1992, during the Tangentopoli corruption scandal, he joined the Corriere della Sera in the same position and made it a point to preserve journalistic independence from politics and business. In his first editorial he wrote,

“The authority of a major daily newspaper and its social weight depend on the ability to send the voice of the country into the palace and to be a true expression of public opinion, which in a democratic society is the natural defense against all danger of arrogance from the centers of power . "

His position of independence vis-à-vis political currents ( Italian terzismo ) was often criticized by the left, including Eugenio Scalfari, who said he did not know what differentiates terzismo from opportunism and trasformismo . Mieli's journalistic style was called mielismo , which, as the journalist Filippo Ceccarelli judges, unmistakably combines high spirit and low matter. Gianni Agnelli characterized this style in such a way that Mieli puts on an old lady a mini skirt. Mieli was replaced by Ferruccio De Bortoli in May 1997 , then went to the RCS MediaGroup as editor-in-chief , which publishes the Corriere della Sera , and continued to publish as a columnist in various newspapers, which resulted in a number of books.

Mieli was appointed editor-in-chief of the public television broadcaster RAI on March 7, 2003 by the presidents of the two chambers of the Italian Parliament , but turned down on March 12 after a public dispute over his role with the government. It was suspected that the Berlusconi government had appointed Mieli to counter allegations of media monopoly, but coalition partner Lega Nord had opposed Mieli because of his salary and personnel demands. He returned to Corriere della Sera as director on December 24, 2004 and sparked controversy over its independence when he spoke out in an editorial in favor of Romano Prodi as prime minister ahead of the 2006 general election in Italy . He introduced a new format and consistent color printing. In April 2009 he was again replaced by De Bortoli.

Since 2009 Mieli has been head of RCS Libri , the book division of the RCS media group. Among other things, he appears in television programs on Rai 3 as an expert on the history of the 20th century .

Awards

In 1998 Mieli was awarded the Premio Mario Pannunzio , 1999 the Premio Saint-Vincent , 2000 the Premio Ischia Internazionale di Giornalismo and 2001 the Premio Palmi in the field of journalism.

Fonts

  • Ed .: Il socialismo diviso. Laterza, Rome, Bari 1978.
  • Ed .: Litigio a sinistra. L'Espresso, Rome 1978.
  • Le Storie, la Storia. Rizzoli, Milan 1999, ISBN 88-17-86036-0 .
  • Storia e politica. Risorgimento, Fascismo e Comunismo. Rizzoli, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-17-86778-0 ; BUR, Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-17-07124-6 .
  • La goccia cinese. Diario di un anno tra storia e presente. Rizzoli, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-17-87103-6 .
  • Giovanni Leone. Un caso giornalistico degli anni '70. USOB-UCSI, Naples, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-901263-9-6 .
  • Storia della Prima Repubblica. UTET, Turin 2006, ISBN 88-02-07428-3 (with three DVDs).
  • 1973: Napoli ai tempi del colera. Un'inchiesta di Paolo Mieli con gli allievi della scuola di giornalismo “Suor Orsola Benincasa” di Napoli. USOB-UCSI, Naples, Rome 2009, ISBN 978-88-6241-004-5 .
  • I conti con la Storia. Per capire il nostro tempo. Rizzoli, Milan 2013, ISBN 978-88-17-07003-4 .
  • L'arma della memoria. Contro la reinvenzione del passato. Rizzoli, Milan 2015, ISBN 978-88-17-08429-1 .

Web links

Commons : Paolo Mieli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Paolo Mieli: Un docente negli anni della “contestazione”. In: Luigi Goglia, Renato Moro (eds.): Renzo De Felice. Study e testimonianze. Edizioni di storia e letteratura, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-87114-81-1 .
  2. ↑ In the original: "l'autorevolezza di un grande quotidiano di information e il suo peso nella vita nazionale dipendono dalla capacità di far pervenire al Palazzo la voce del paese, di essere l'espressione fedele dell'opinione pubblica che in una societa democratica rappresentica la difesa naturale contro ogni pericolo di arroganza dei centri di potere ”. Giorgio Dell'Arti: Biografia di Paolo Mieli. In: Cinquantamila.it , May 22, 2014 (Italian).
  3. ^ TV row strains Italian government. In: BBC News , March 13, 2003; Jason Horowitz: Italy: Storm Over New Broadcast Chief. In: The New York Times , March 13, 2003.
  4. ^ Paolo Mieli: La scelta del April 9: Centrosinistra e centrodestra al voto. In: Corriere della Sera , March 3, 2006 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Mieli, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan