Maurizio Molinari
Maurizio Molinari (born 28 October 1964 in
Education and early career
Molinari graduated in 1989 with a
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.[1]
Molinari lives between New York City and Turin. He is married since 1994 with Micol Braha. They have four children.
Journalist at La Stampa
Molinari arrived at La Stampa in 1997, and for over a decade he worked as a correspondent, first from Brussels, then from New York City, and since 2014 from Jerusalem and Ramallah, before returning to Turin as editor-in-chief in 2016.
Molinari also writes for several Italian newspapers and
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
His main reference points are deemed to be Foreign Affairs, Publishing Industry and the History.
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
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
On 17 July 2021, his newspaper, la Repubblica, had the infamous "Hunt for the non-vaccinated. They are 17 million more" on its front page.[3][4][5] 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". Decode39 noted that in denying accusations, the Kremlin confirms its whole line from Ukraine to natural gas.[6]
Participation to Bilderberg and WEF meetings
Maurizio Molinari was a participant of the 2017
References
- ^ Cinquantamila, Maurizio Molinari
- ^ L'Unità, 26 November 2015
- ^ "Buongiorno con la prima pagina di oggi #19luglio". Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.
- ^ "La "caccia ai non vaccinati" di Repubblica nella prima pagina di oggi". Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.
- ^ "La Repubblica - Caccia ai non vaccinati, sono oltre 17 milioni". Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.
- ^ Bechis, Francesco (23 November 2021). "How the Kremlin attacked Italy over an op-ed". Decode 39. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ "PARTICIPANTS 2017". Archived from the original on 16 March 2023.
- ^ "World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2019 Globalization 4.0" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2023.