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Marco Travaglio ((:ˈmarko traˈvaʎʎo); born 13 October 1964) is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and opinion leader. Perry Anderson has called him 'arguably Europe’s greatest journalist.'〔Perry Anderson, ('The Italian Disaster,' ) London Review of Books, Vol. 36 No. 10, 22 May 2014 pp 3-16〕 ==Biography== Travaglio was born in Turin and earned a degree in history from the University of Turin. In 1992 he began to pursue journalism as a career. He started out writing for Catholic publications such as ''Il nostro tempo'' ("Our time"), then worked under the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers such as ''Il Giornale'' and ''La Voce'' and gained the attention of Montanelli himself who once said of him: "No, Travaglio does not kill anyone. With a knife. He uses a more refined and not legally punishable weapon: the archives". Since 2006, Marco Travaglio has been a regular guest in the TV program ''AnnoZero'', hosted by Michele Santoro (also mentioned by Berlusconi in the so-called Bulgarian Edict). Recently, Travaglio has contributed as a columnist to prominent national newspapers and magazines, such as ''La Repubblica'', ''L'Unità'' (hosting columns such as "Bananas", "Uliwood Party" and "Zorro") and ''Micromega''. He still contributes to ''L'espresso'' writing a column by the name "Signornò'". In September 2009 he contributed to the founding of the independent newspaper ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'' ("The Daily Fact"). Political and judicial events of national importance, from Mani pulite to the troubles of controversial political figure Silvio Berlusconi, have been Travaglio's main area of interest. The journalist gained public attention in 2001, after participating in a TV show on state-owned national channel Raidue called ''Satyricon'' and hosted by Daniele Luttazzi. He then introduced his bestseller book ''L'odore dei soldi'' ("The Scent of Money", co-authored by :Elio Veltri), which investigates the origin of Mr Berlusconi's early fortunes. Berlusconi filed a lawsuit for slander, but since the information was accurate and well documented, he was condemned to pay the legal expenses.〔 (Court sentence )〕 The show, aired during the campaign for the Italian general election, was heavily criticized by Berlusconi and his party and labeled by them as a politically motivated, non-objective personal attack. After Mr Berlusconi's victory at the elections, Berlusconi banned Luttazzi (together with Enzo Biagi and Michele Santoro, prominent journalists that had criticized Mr Berlusconi's or investigated his history) from state-owned TV shows (''Editto Bulgaro''), causing a long debate about freedom of information and censorship in Italy. On 10 May 2008, Marco Travaglio commented on Renato Schifani's election as president of the Senate that one should "simply ask of the second highest office of the state to explain those relationships with those men who have subsequently been condemned for association with the Mafia" on the RAI current affairs talk show television program ''Che tempo che fa''.〔 («Schifani diffamato da Travaglio» ), Corriere della Sera, 11 May 2008〕〔 (Fazio chiede scusa in Tv a Schifani ), La Repubblica, 11 May 2008〕〔( Compromised by compromise ), blog by John Hooper (The Guardian), 13 May 2008〕 The statement of Travaglio resulted in fierce negative reactions from Italian politicians, including from the centre left, except for Antonio Di Pietro who said that Travaglio was "merely doing his job". Some called for chief executives at RAI to be dismissed. The political commentator (and future leader) Beppe Grillo supported Travaglio, while Schifani announced he would go to Court and sue Travaglio for slander.〔 (Caso Travaglio, Schifani querela ), ''Corriere della Sera'', 12 May 2008〕 Schifani said Travaglio's accusation was based on "inconsistent or manipulated facts, not even worthy of generating suspicions", adding that "someone wants to undermine the dialogue between the government and the opposition."〔 In 2009, the German Association of Journalists assigned Travaglio its annual award for Freedom of the Press, describing him as a "brave and critical colleague () exposing continually the attempts of Italian politicians, especially Silvio Berlusconi, to influence the media to their advantage and to negate critical reports."〔(DJV prize for Marco Travaglio ), press release of the German Association of Journalists (DJV).〕 Travaglio is a Roman Catholic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Beyond-Berlusconi/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marco Travaglio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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