Born in Rome in 1964, he started out as a journalist in 1984 for La Voce Repubblicana, going on to cover foreign affairs and security in various print dailies and television. In 1997, he joined La Stampa as their diplomatic correspondent, reporting from Brussels, New York, and Jerusalem-Ramallah. In 2016, he became the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, leaving the role in 2020 to become editor-in-chief of la Repubblica.

At both La Stampa and la Repubblica he led the publishing system’s digital transition, reorganizing the editorial staff and achieving significant results in digital reading and the use of social networks as a new tool for quality journalism.

Since 1989 he has covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Among the leaders he has interviewed are U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, U.S. Secretaries of State Mike Pompeo, Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, U.N. Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, Colonel Qaddafi, Saudi King Abdallah, Israeli Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Peres, Israeli President Rivlin, PLO Chairman Arafat, Palestinian President Abbas, PKK commander Ocalan, Iraqi Kurdish President Barazani, and Turkish President Erdogan.

He has over twenty books on foreign policy published in Italy, including Il Califfato del terrore [The Caliphate of Terror] (2016) and Mediterraneo conteso [Mediterranean contested] (2023) for Rizzoli; and most recently La nuova guerra contro le democrazie [The new war against democracy] (2024).

He studied at Manchester College and the Jewish University of Jerusalem before graduating from foreign policy and history at the University of Rome.

He speaks English fluently.