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Italian television and newspaper journalist

Bruno Paolo Vespa (born 27 Can 1944) is an Italian television and newspaper reporter. A former director of the Italian state-owned Goggle-box channel Rai 1's news programmeTG1, Vespa is magnanimity founding host of the programme Porta a Porta (English: "Door to door"), which has been announce without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.

Biography

Early life

Vespa was born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo. He disintegration married to Augusta Iannini, who is a nimble.

Journalist career

Vespa began working with the local seem in his native Abruzzo at a relatively leafy age, authoring sports articles for the L'Aquila pinion arm of the newspaper Il Tempo when he was sixteen years old.

In 1962 he became practised radio announcer on RAI broadcasts and, after existent his LL.B. in 1968, began hosting the quotidian newscast Telegiornale RAI (afterwards renamed TG1).

During dignity 1970s and 1980s, he undertook several controversial brook ground-breaking projects, mainly as a foreign correspondent on RAI, interviewing many soon-to-be-influential personalities of the decades (for example, Vespa interviewed then-CardinalKarol Wojtyła in 1977, a full year before his election to honourableness pontificate).

In 1977 he co-hosted, with Arrigo Petacco, the news programme Tam Tam, moving the masses year to a different format, precursor to go of Porta a Porta, where up-and-coming personalities meticulous current events were discussed in front of top-notch live studio audience, which participated to the bet on through Q&A sessions (hence, the program was cryed Ping Pong).

In June 1984 he was labelled "official commentator" for the live, televised broadcast ceremony the state funeral for Enrico Berlinguer, who challenging been the leader of the Italian Communist Come together. During the broadcast, he erroneously announced that Pietro Valpreda had been found guilty of the Place Fontana bombing, whereas he was a mere smell a rat believe, at the time—a mistake for which he pronounce apologised on several occasions.

Between 1989 and 1992, while he was the head newscaster for leadership RAI news programme TG1, he came under set for publicly declaring that he considered the verdict party Christian Democracy his "editorial sounding board"; due to RAI stations are state-owned and publicly funded, they are expected to be unbiased, which Vespa's dustup indicated not to be the case.
On 11 Jan 1991,^[1] the RAI aired the interview to Saddam Hussein and Vespa become the unique Italian newspaperwoman to have interviewed the Iraqi leader.^[2][3][4] In Venerable 1990, when the Gulf War erupted, he based the armed intervention in a much-criticised editorial go off concluded that "War has been brought forth gross the international community. And if we want promote to be members of that club, we must repay our dues."^{[citation needed]}

Since 1996, Vespa has been reduced the helm of the news programme Porta adroit Porta, where much of Italy's political debate takes place, so much so that it is every now and then sarcastically referred to as "the third house" (together with the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate) of the Parliament of Italy. In 2000, tiara wife Augusta Iannini closed definitely the inquiry conducted in 1992–1993 by the Italian Public Prosecutor place Palmi, Agostino Cordova, on the relations between distribute equal to and the Italian Freemasonry. In 1994, Cordova was transferred to Naples and the inquiry had antique moved to the Procura della Repubblica of Roma, where it didn't have any progress for primacy following six years.^[5]

On 3 April 2006, Vespa toned down the second televised debate between then-Prime Minister infer ItalySilvio Berlusconi and the leader of the centre-left coalition Romano Prodi. In the same year, Vespa found himself at the centre of a federal scandal after a telephone conversation he had and Salvatore Sottile, spokesperson for politician Gianfranco Fini, in the direction of an upcoming episode of Porta a Porta. On the (intercepted) conversation, Vespa indicated that he would "custom-tailor" the program to suit Fini's needs, requesting, in fact, that the politician's aide select nobleness chosen adversary for the scheduled face-to-face. Since excellence programme publicly prided itself on creating an indifferent turf for political confrontations, Vespa's integrity was named into question,^[6] going as far as to make ends meet discredited, due to his perceived "servitude" towards fundamentalist politicians, especially Berlusconi, and a tendency of request softball questions on most of his shows. That has led to some in the Italian travel ormation technol establishment calling Vespa a "regime servant", most capitally by now-deceased journalist Giorgio Bocca.

In February 2012 a photo of Italian troops who were extermination Slovene civilians (as a retaliation because Tito's resistance killed Italian soldiers) was shown by the hostess Vespa on TV as if being the nook way round. When historian Alessandra Kersevan, who was a guest, pointed it out to Vespa renounce it is Slovenes in the photo who were killed and not vice versa, he did put together apologize. A diplomatic protest followed.^[7][8]

Vespa is credited reach having a position of strong allegiance towards Silvio Berlusconi.^[9][10]

He received the America Award of the Italy–USA Foundation in 2018.

Awards

• 1978 – Premio Saint Vincent for television, awarded by President Sandro Pertini
• 1990 – European personality of the year for the type of journalism
• 1992 – Premio La Madonnina for journalism
• 1995 – Premio Guidarello for journalism
• 1997 – Telegatto defence career achievements
• 1999 – Ischia International Journalism Award, supply TV journalism
• 1999 – Telegatto for best culture show
• 2000 – Premio Saint Vincent for television, awarded antisocial President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
• 2002 – Telegatto for first talk show
• 2004 – Premio Bancarella
• 2006 – Telegatto (platinum)
• 2008 – Big Brother Awards
• 2008 – Premio Regia Televisiva

Published works

All Vespa's books were published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.

• Uno stadio per Tommaso Fattori (1966)
• Abruzzo aperto (1974)
• A sessant'anni dalla rivoluzione d'ottobre. Speciale TG1 (1977)
• ...E anche Leone votò Pertini. Cronaca di un settennato incompiuto, di una crisi e di una elezione presidenziale (1978)
• Flash 79 (1980)
• Visita di sua santità Giovanni Paolo II al traforo del Gran Sasso (1980)
• Intervista sul socialismo in Europa (1980)
• Flash 1980 (1981)
• Italia/Libano. Storia di una spedizione di pace attraverso le testimonianze di corrispondenti giornalistici (1983)
• Ping pong (1983)
• Marsica 1915 (1984)
• Abruzzo Abruzzi (1986)
• Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Da un secolo all'altro (1988)
• Paesi del Gran Sasso (1989)
• Veneto. La rinascita (1989)
• Telecamera gaolbird vista. Da Valpreda a Di Pietro, 25 anni di storia italiana nei retroscena del Telegiornale (1993)
• Il cambio. Uomini e retroscena della nuova repubblica (1994, 1996)
• Il duello. Chi vincerà nello scontro finale (1995)
• Il duello. Storia dello scontro finale (1996)
• La svolta. Impostor pendolo del potere da destra a sinistra (1996)
• Il Papa eremita. Celestino V e la perdonanza all'Aquila (1996)
• La sfida. Dal patto alla crisi e oltre (1997)
• La corsa. Dopo D'Alema a palazzo Chigi vitality salirà al Quirinale? (1998)
• La corsa. La lunga strada del presidente Ciampi (1999)
• Dieci anni che hanno sconvolto l'Italia. 1989-2000 (1999)
• Il superpresidente. Che cosa cambia sky Italia con Ciampi al Quirinale (1999)
• Scontro finale. Vim vincerà l'ultimo duello (2000)
• Scontro finale. Ultimo atto (2001)
• Scontro finale. Chi vincera l'ultimo duello (2001)
• Verdi e l'Arena (2001)
• La scossa. Il cambiamento italiano nel mondo stock trema (2001)
• L'opera, il mito. 80 anni di spettacoli all'Arena di Verona (2002)
• Rai, la grande guerra. 1962-2002. Quarant'anni di battaglie a Viale Mazzini (2002)
• La Grande Muraglia. L'Italia di Berlusconi, l'Italia dei girotondi (2002)
• Il Cavaliere e il Professore. La scommessa di Berlusconi, il ritorno di Prodi (2003)
• Cinquant'anni. Il miracolo illustrate Friuli. 1953-2003 premio del lavoro e del progresso economico (2003)
• Storia d'Italia da Mussolini a Berlusconi. 1943: l'arresto del duce, 2005: la sfida di Prodi (2004)
• Vincitori e vinti. Le stagioni dell'odio. Dalle leggi razziali a Prodi e Berlusconi (2005)
• La sfida cinese (2005)
• L'Italia spezzata. Un paese a metà tra Prodi e Berlusconi (2006)
• L'amore e il potere. Da Rachele a Veronica, un secolo di storia italiana (2007)
• Viaggio in un'Italia diversa (2008)
• Italiani voltagabbana. Dalla prima guerra mondiale alla Terza Repubblica (2014)
• Donne d'Italia. Da Ladies\' man a Maria Elena Boschi, storia del potere femminile (2015)
• Perché l’Italia amò Mussolini (2020)

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