He
has been working as a journalist since 1981. Until 1983 he worked for the
economic daily Ore 12, then he left Italy for a long journey in South America
where he was free-lance correspondent for the newspaper Paese Sera. He
came back to Rome in 1984 and started collaborating with Paese Sera as a local
reporter.After
passing the professional journalists' exam in 1986, he entered the press agency
Ansa. In
1987 he started working for Rai in the newborn Channel 3 news. Here he met
journalist Michele Santoro and their collaboration began. He worked on his
programmes Samarcanda, Il Rosso e il Nero and Tempo Reale as a foreign and home correspondent. In
1996 he moved to Channel 1 news, as a foreign and home correspondent. In 2000
he collaborated with the programme Sciuscià
writing and directing the documentary Nero
di vongole, on Venice lagoon's pollution.
