Paolo Rossi-Barnard (born 2 January 1958) is an Italian journalist and documentary maker.

Biography

Born in Bologna, Italy, after his bachelor's degree in Psychology, he began his media career at

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, for the Italian public television program ''Samarcanda''. He later worked for the popular program ''

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'' for

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, then moved to Rai Educational. He was correspondent for some main Italian newspapers such as la ''

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'', '' il manifesto'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. As an author he has written books on

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in the

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and the health system in Italy. In 2011, Barnard was concerned with monetary fundamentals of the present economic crisis, especially in Italy. His opinions, published on Barnard's website, led to the organization of the first Italian meeting on

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, held on 25–27 February 2012 in

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. Since 2013 he has been taking part in the Italian economic and financial TV talk show ''

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'' hosted by

Gianluigi Paragone Gianluigi Paragone (born 7 August 1971) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Paragone was born in Varese in 1971. After working as a journalist for a local newspaper and a local television network, Paragone became editor of ''La P ...

, which aired on Italian TV channel

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. He is interviewed in the documentary ''

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'', dubbed in

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by actor

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References

External links

Official Website
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