Marco Travaglio
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Marco Travaglio (1964, Turin) is an Italian journalist and writer.
He started her career writing for some catholic publications, such as Il nostro tempo (Our time), then working for historical journalist Indro Montanelli, to newspapers Il Giornale and La Voce.
Nowadays Travaglio works as contributor for some national newspapers and magazines, such as La Repubblica, L'Unità (with his old column "Bananas" and new column "Uliwood Party") and Micromega.
His main area of interest has been political-judicial chronicles, starting from Mani pulite to the judicial troubles of Silvio Berlusconi. He broke off to popularity on 2001, after having participated to a TV show on national channel Raidue, called Satyricon, and hosted by Daniele Luttazzi, where he presented his brand-new book, named L'odore dei soldi (Italian for The Smell of Money, co-authored by Elio Veltri), about the early fortunes of the rightist leader. It was period of electoral campaign for general election in Italy, eventually won by Berlusconi himself.
Up to September 2006 neither Travaglio nor Luttazzi have appeared on national TV shows since Berlusconi took his office as PM (called Diktat Bulgaro), causing a long debate about freedom of information and censorship in Italy. From 14 September 2006, Marco Travaglio is guest (on a regular basis) in the transmission Anno Zero, hosted by Michele Santoro (also mentioned by Berlusconi in the Diktat Bulgaro).
Books by Marco Travaglio also include Bravi ragazzi (Italian for Good fellas), published in 2003 and reporting on the presumed corruption of judges by Cesare Previti and Silvio Berlusconi; Lo chiamavano Impunità (Italian for They Called Him Impunity, a humorous reference to the spaghetti western Lo chiamavano Trinità), published in 2003, ISBN 88-359-5437-I, about the SME-Ariosto inquiry and legal process.
