Enrico Deaglio (born 11 April 1947) is an Italian

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and

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Biography

Deaglio was born in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

, where he graduated in medicine (June 1971) and worked in the Mauriziano Hospital. In the mid-1970s, he started his journalist career for the communist newspaper ''

Lotta continua Lotta Continua (LC; en, Continuous Struggle) was a far-left paramilitary organization in Italy. It was founded in autumn 1969 by a split in the student-worker movement of Turin, which had started militant activity at the universities and factor ...

'', of which he was editor from 1977 to 1982. Later he worked for numerous national newspapers and magazine, including ''

La Stampa ''La Stampa'' (meaning ''The Press'' in English) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin, Italy. It is distributed in Italy and other European nations. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. History and profile The paper was fou ...

'', '' Il Manifesto'', ''

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'', '' Epoca'' and ''

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''. From 1985 to 1986 he was the editor of the newspaper ''Reporter''. From the later 1980s he worked for the news show ''Mixer'' on

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TV, focusing in particular on the Sicilian mafia and events Abroad. In the 1990s he hosted several shows on

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, such as ''Milano, Italia'' (January–June 1994), ' (1999), ', ' and '. From 1997 to 2008 he was editor of the weekly ''Diario''. In 2006 his TV documentary ''Uccidete la democrazia!'' (Kill Democracy!), where he suggested that electronic votes in the

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were manipulated in favour of

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's party,

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, generated significant controversies. Deaglio's theory was subsequently discarded by an official recount of ballots by the Italian Parliament. His brother, Mario Deaglio, is an economist at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

Selected bibliography

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References

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