Marco Travaglio

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Marco Travaglio
Travaglio in Trento, 2010
Travaglio in 2010
Born (1964-10-13) 13 October 1964 (age 59)
Turin, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Turin
OccupationJournalist
Years active1986–present

Marco Travaglio (Italian pronunciation:

Italian Mafia to corruption
.

An early critic of

liberal Right of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Luigi Einaudi, Alcide De Gasperi, and Montanelli. He said he voted for those who had the best chance to remove Berlusconi from power and for anti-corruption parties, such as Italy of Values and Civil Revolution. Since the early 2010s, he has been politically close to and supportive of the Five Star Movement
.

Career

Travaglio was born in

Fiat Ferroviaria; his brother, Franco Travaglio, is an author, director, and librettist of modern musicals. After having obtained his classical high school diploma at the Liceo salesiano Valsalice [it] in Turin with a score of 58/60, he graduated in modern literature with a thesis on contemporary history at the University of Turin at the age of 32, after becoming a professional journalist in 1986.[1][2]

In the late 1980s, Travaglio began to pursue journalism as a career, and he started out writing for

Catholic publications, such as Il nostro tempo ("Our Time"),[3] where he met Mario Giordano.[4] He then worked under the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers like Il Giornale (1987–1994) and La Voce (1994–1995),[5] and gained the attention of Montanelli himself, who once said of him that he makes use of "a more refined and not legally punishable weapon: the archives".[6] During this period, Travaglio began to collaborate with Enzo Biagi, who hosted the television program Il Fatto [it]. After the closure of La Voce, this activity was joined by collaboration with various newspapers and periodicals.[5] From 1998 to 2009, Travaglio worked at La Repubblica (1998–2002) and L'Unità (2002–2009), where he hosted columns like "Bananas", "Uliwood Party", and "Zorro". Between 2006 and 2011, he was also a regular guest of the TV program AnnoZero, hosted by Michele Santoro.[5]

During his career, Travaglio contributed as a columnist to prominent national newspapers and magazines, such as Sette, Cuore, Il Messaggero, Il Giorno, L'Indipendente [it], Il Borghese, La Padania, L'Espresso (hosting the "Sigornò" column after the death of Claudio Rinaldi [it]), MicroMega, A, linus, Giudizio Universale [it], and La voce del ribelle. From 2008 to 2011, he edited the weekly streamed column "Passaparola" for the political commentator and future leader Beppe Grillo's blog, which was later also broadcast by Current TV.[5] In September 2009, alongside Furio Colombo, Peter Gomez [it], Marco Lillo [it], Cinzia Monteverdi, and Antonio Padellaro [it], Travaglio contributed to the founding of the independent newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano ("The Daily Fact").[7] He became editor-in-chief of the paper in 2015.[5][8] Since 2018, he has edited a weekly column called "Balle Spaziali" on the Loft web portal of Il Fatto Quotidiano.[9]

Political and judicial events of national importance, from Mani pulite to the troubles of controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi, have been Travaglio's main area of interest. As a journalist, he gained public attention in 2001 after participating in a TV show on the state-owned national channel Rai 2 called Satyricon [it] and hosted by Daniele Luttazzi. He then introduced his bestseller book L'odore dei soldi ("The Scent of Money", co-authored by Elio Veltri), which investigates the origin of Berlusconi's early fortunes. Berlusconi filed a lawsuit for slander; since the information was accurate and well documented, he was condemned to pay the legal expenses.[10] The show, which aired during the campaign for the 2001 Italian general election, was heavily criticized by Berlusconi and his party, and labelled by them as a politically motivated, non-objective personal attack. After his victory in the general election, Berlusconi banned Luttazzi (together with Enzo Biagi and Michele Santoro, two prominent journalists who had criticized Berlusconi or investigated his history) from state-owned TV shows (the editto bulgaro), causing a long debate about freedom of information and censorship in Italy.[11]

On 10 May 2008, Travaglio commented on

slander.[14] Schifani said Travaglio's accusation was based on "inconsistent or manipulated facts, not even worthy of generating suspicions", adding that "someone wants to undermine the dialogue between the government and the opposition".[15] In February 2009, the German Association of Journalists assigned Travaglio its annual award for Freedom of the Press, describing him as a "brave and critical colleague ... exposing continually the attempts of Italian politicians, especially Silvio Berlusconi, to influence the media to their advantage and to negate critical reports."[16]

Since his rise to prominence, Travaglio has been a polarizing and at times controversial figure. Of Travaglio, Grillo said in October 2007 that he wanted him as the

Italian Minister of Justice. Of the oppositive view was Fausto Bertinotti, then leader of the Communist Refoundation Party, who said that Travaglio was distant from his way of thinking, methods, and polemics, including what he described as Travaglio's justicialism (giustizialismo) compared to his cultural garantismo, and in October 2005 had joked that hearing his name gave him hives.[17] In 2005, former Italian president Francesco Cossiga described Travaglio as "a dirty, right-wing fascist", while Pier Ferdinando Casini, the then president of the Chamber of Deputies, joked in 2006 that Travaglio would become jobless if Berlusconi were to die.[18]

Political views

Travaglio considers himself as having always been a

In a 2008 interview given to

De Gasperi, Montanelli. All dead."[25]

During Rai 2's television program Dodicesimo round, Travaglio stated that in the 2006 Italian general election he had voted on the Senate "without holding my nose for the first time" because, in his own words, "Italy of Values made me the gift of candidating a person that I esteem and that has honored me of her friendship, Franca Rame."[26] On 29 March 2008, Antonio Di Pietro's blog published an article by Travaglio in which he publicly expressed his vote for Italy of Values for the 2008 Italian general election and confirmed his liberal leanings, adding that he was still "waiting for a new Einaudi or a new De Gasperi".[27] On 5 June 2009, on the eve of the 2009 European Parliament election in Italy, he stated he would vote for Italy of Values because he was satisfied with its way of opposing the fourth Berlusconi government.[28]

Interviewed by

Renzi–Boschi reform, Travaglio supported the "No" campaign and wrote a book against the reform.[32] On the 8 March 2018 episode of Otto e mezzo, Travaglio stated that he had voted for the Five Star Movement in the 2018 Italian general election.[33] For the 2020 Italian constitutional referendum about the reduction of the number of MPs, Travaglio supported the "Yes".[34]

In February 2022, Travaglio called the news of an impending

Russian embassy has praised and retweeted it.[44][45][46]

In June 2023, upon the

death and state funeral of Berlusconi, Travaglio was critical towards what he perceived as a beatification of the deceased leader, citing his multiple scandals.[47]

Awards and honours

Travaglio won the Political Satire Award in Forte dei Marmi (2007) for his columns on L'Unità, the Press Freedom Award (2009) of the National Association of German Journalists,[5] and the Premiolino (2010).[48]

Works

Travaglio is the author of over fifty books. Some of Travaglio's works, such as È Stato la mafia (2013) and Slurp (2015), were adapted for the theatre and theatrical monologues. Additional theatrical works include Promemoria: 15 anni di storia d'Italia (2009) and Anestesia totale (2011).[5] Several books by Travaglio are co-authored, usually with other investigative journalists.[5]

2000s
2010s
2020s

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  6. . È un Grande Inquisitore, da far impallidire Vyšinskij, il bieco strumento delle purghe di Stalin. Non uccide nessuno. Col coltello. Usa un'arma molto più raffinata e non perseguibile penalmente: l'archivio. Immaginate il dossier che un simile segugio può aver compilato su Berlusconi, che a pranzo ha completamente dimenticato ciò che ha detto a colazione. [He is a Grand Inquisitor, to make Vyshinsky pale, the sinister instrument of Stalin's purges. He doesn't kill anyone. With the knife. He uses a much more refined weapon that cannot be prosecuted: the archive. Imagine the dossier such a bloodhound could have compiled on Berlusconi, who at lunch completely forgot what he said at breakfast.]
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  23. . Retrieved 20 June 2023 – via Google Books. Se non fosse Berlusconi il capo della destra io starei lì! In Francia voterei a occhi chiusi per uno Chirac, un Villepin. Per Sarkozy no perchè è un tamarro. In Germania voterei Merkel sicuro. Mi piacevano molto Reagan e la Thatcher. [If Berlusconi wasn't the head of the Right, I'd be there! In France I would vote with closed eyes for a Chirac, a Villepin. Not for Sarkozy because he is a thug. In Germany I would surely vote for Merkel. I liked very much Reagan and Thatcher.]
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Journalist for Il Giornale
1988–1994
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Journalist for La Voce
1994–1995
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Journalist for La Repubblica
1998–2001
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2002–2009
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