In a recent controversial episode in Italian journalism, one of the hosts of the Zanzara current affairs radio talk show - impersonating a well-known Italian politician - phoned another Italian politi...
Luca Telese
Luca Telese is the presenter of the current affairs chat show Matrix on Canale 5. He was previously co-presenter of the weekly TV current affairs discussion programme In Onda on LA7. In September 2012 he co-founded the new Italian national print daily Pubblico of which he served as editor. Pubblico ceased publication in December 2012. He was a columnist of the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, political correspondent of the Italian daily Il Giornale and TV presenter with a variety of roles, including Omnibus Estate on LA7 in 2006 and Tetris on LA7 from 2007. He is the author of La lunga marcia di Sergio Cofferati (2003), Cuori neri (2006), Qualcuno era comunista (2009), La marchesa, la villa e il cavaliere (2011) and Gioventù, amore e rabbia (2011).
If Italy is to offer a better tomorrow, Italians must wake up to the harsh realities of today and yesterday. That’s the message of the controversial documentary by the Anglo-Italian team of film-m...
Deliquescence? The fall of Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t just a dramatic, and unexpected, political upheaval. It also had major implications for the Italian media marketplace. In particular, will the RA...
Tabula rasa 1992-2012: 20 years in which the Italian left lost (itself) When and why did the Italian left begin to lose (itself)? When and why might the Italian left begin to win (back its identity)?
The talk show in the age of Monti The age of Berlusconi saw the Italian TV current affairs talk show become just that: a show. Endless burble, plenty of self-promotion, little substance, formulaic ho...
Asinara revolution On 24 February 2010 the workers of Vinyls in Sardinia occupied the nearby former maximum security prison of Asinara to protest against the closure of their factory. They began a ...