Maurizio Molinari (born 28 October 1964 in
Rome
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,
Italy
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) is an Italian
journalist
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, as of April 2020
Editor in Chief of the daily ''
la Repubblica
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'', after serving five years as editor in chief of la
La Stampa.
Education and early career
Molinari graduated in 1989 with a
bachelor's degree
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in
political science
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from
La Sapienza University
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in
Rome
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, and, in 1993, with degree in
history
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from the same university. He also studied at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
Israel
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and at
Manchester College, Oxford in the
United Kingdom
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.
At the same time in 1984 he starts working as a journalist for ''La Voce Repubblicana'', the newspaper of the
Italian Republican Party, and achieves professional journalist status in 1989.
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Molinari lives between
New York City
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and
Turin
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. He is married since 1994 with Micol Braha. They have four children.
Journalist at ''La Stampa''
Molinari arrives at ''
La Stampa'' in 1997, and for over a decade he works as correspondent first from
Brussels
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than from
New York City
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, and since 2014 from
Jerusalem
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and
Ramallah, before returning to Turin as editor-in-chief in 2016.
Molinari writes also for several Italian newspapers and
news magazines
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, including ''
La Voce Repubblicana'', ''
Il Tempo'', ''
L'Indipendente'', ''
L'Opinione'', ''
Il Foglio
''Il Foglio'' (English: "The Paper") is an Italian centrist daily newspaper with circulation around 25.000 copies per day (with an overall spread of 47.000). It was founded in 1996 by the Italian journalist and politician Giuliano Ferrara after ...
'', and ''
Panorama''.
Journalist since 1989 he covered the conflicts in the Balkans, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Among the leaders he interviewed there are the US presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Madleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki moon, Libyan colonel Qaddafi, Saudi king Abdallah, Israeli prime ministers Netanyahu and Peres, Israeli president Rivlin, PLO chairman Arafat, Palestinian president Abbas, the Pkk commander Ocalan, the Iraqi Kurdish president Barazani and the Turkish President Erdogan.
Molinari is a regular guest commentator on Italian TV, including on
La7
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Signal overspill means that parts of Albania, Croatia, Swi ...
,
Rainews24, TgCom and SkyTg24. He has occasionally been a panelist on
CNN
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,
CBS
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and ''
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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Anchored by Judy Woodruff, the prog ...
'', aired on the
Public Broadcasting Service.
His main reference points are deemed to be
Foreign Affairs,
Publishing Industry
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and the
History
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.
Essayist
Between 2000 and 2022 Molinari has been a prolific essayist, publishing an average of one book per year. Molinari is the author of 21
non-fiction
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books, all published in
Italian
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*** Regional Ita ...
: ''The Jews in Italy: A Problem of Identity (1870-1938)'' (
published
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by La Giuntina in
1991
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), ''The Left and Jews in Italy (1967-1993)'' (Corbaccio,
1995
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), ''The National Interest'' (Laterza,
2000
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), ''Between White House and 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 Seen by the CIA (1948-2004)'' (Laterza,
2005), ''The Jews of New York'' (Laterza, 2007), ''Democratic Cowboys'' (
Einaudi 2008), ''Obama's Country'' (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 to the West'' (Rizzoli, 2015), "The Return of the Tribes" (Rizzoli 2016), ''Duel in the Ghetto'' (Rizzoli, 2017), "Why It Did Happen Here" (Nave di Teseo, 2018), "The West under Assault" (Nave di Teseo, 2019), "Atlas of a Changing World" (Rizzoli, 2020), “The battlefield” (Nave di Teseo, 2021) and “The Return of Empires” (Rizzoli, 2022).
His "''The Caliphate of Terror''" (2015) has been presented by
Roberto Saviano as the book "we all should read".
Editor in Chief of ''La Stampa'' and ''la Repubblica''
On 26 November 2015 Molinari is nominated new Editor in Chief of the Turin daily ''
La Stampa'', replacing
Mario Calabresi, who was heading to Rome to take the place of
Ezio Mauro
''Ezio Mauro'' (born 24 October 1948) is an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper la Repubblica from 1996 to 2016.
Biography
Mauro was born in Dronero, Italy. He started his career as journalist writing for the local new ...
as Editor in Chief of ''
La Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnol ...
''.
The President of
EXOR,
John Elkann
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, chooses Molinari over the deputy editor
Massimo Gramellini, and flanks him with
Massimo Russo (former editor of ''
Wired
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Italia'') as co-director.
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26 November 2015
In December 2017 Molinari becomes also editorial director of
GNN , the Gedi News Network that includes
La Stampa,
Secolo XIX and the local papers of the former
Finegil Group.
On April 23rd, 2020, he becomes Editor in Chief of
la Repubblica
''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnol ...
.
As Editor in Chief, in November 2021 Molinari was attacked by Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Kremlin’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because of a news analysis about
Putin’s grip on the European Union'' "Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a hybrid threat", wrote Molinari, “generating parallel crises to grip the European Union in a vice”. Zakharova called Molinari's analysis “a delicious absurdity” but in denying accusations - as Decode39 noted - the Kremlin confirms its whole line, from Ukraine to natural gas.
Participation to Bilderberg Meeting in 2017
Maurizio Molinari was a participant of the 2017
Bilderberg Meeting, as noted in the official website of the Bilderberg group, which publishes the list of participants.
References
External links
Official blogJerusalem Day by DayThe Caliphate of Terror
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1964 births
Living people
Italian political writers
Italian newspaper editors
Italian male journalists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Alumni of Harris Manchester College, Oxford
Writers from Rome
La Repubblica editors
La Stampa editors
21st-century Italian Jews