Daniela Sanzone is an Italian and

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and writer. She lives in Toronto, where she is a teaching assistant and a PhD candidate at

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in communication and culture, graduate joint program at

and

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. Her research interests are Canadian broadcasting policies,

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, and

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, also known as third language media or ethnic minority media. For many years she was a news anchor and a reporter for the ''Italian News'' at

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, a Canadian multicultural channel owned by

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, and the on-air host of the daily program ''Pomeriggio Italiano'' (Italian Afternoon). In 2016 she published her first novel, "La guerra secondo Michele" (The War According to Michele).

Biography

Sanzone was born and raised in

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. She has a bachelor's degree in

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and

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from

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in Rome, with a dissertation in film history and critique, and a master's in

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and cultural anthropology of complex societies. She has been living in

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since December 2000.

Career

Her career in Canada started at ''

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'', the Italian newspaper based in Toronto, where she worked for two years. Then, she joined the team at ''

'', as a news anchor and a reporter for the Italian News; in her long experience at Omni, she was also the on-air host and producer of the daily program ''Pomeriggio Italiano''. For many years, Sanzone was also the Canada News coordinator for the Italian Press Agency

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and a free-lancer for the daily Italian newspaper ''Il Manifesto'', as well as several magazines, like ''Marie Claire'', ''Amica'', ''La rivista del cinematografo'', and ''Grazia''. In 2013, with the Canadian-Italian musician Daniela Nardi, she organized ORA: Culture-Canada-Italy-Now, which included a Speakers Circle about immigration identity, culture in Toronto, how the Italian community is changing in the digital era, and therefore how to find new ways to interest and connect the new Italian immigrants and the future generations. In 2001 she organized a focus on the Italian Canadian cinema, bringing three films done by

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, Tony Nardi, and Bruno Ramirez and the three people mentioned at the Sulmona International Film Festival, in Italy. In Rome, Italy, where she is a giornalista professionista (professional journalist) and a film critic, she worked as a writer for ''Sereno Variabile'', a program about traveling, broadcast by

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Television (Italian National Television). Among other publications, she worked as an entertainment editor for the daily newspaper ''Ultime Notizie'' (Last News), and as an assistant producer of the online Daily News, published by RaiNet and Italia Cinema (today

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News), all based in Rome. In 1998 she was awarded the "European Personality" and received this recognition in

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, Rome City Hall,

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Publications

- Novel, "La Guerra secondo Michele" (The War According to Michele), 2016 - Ten booklets, "I Miti" (The Myths), enclosed in the international movies’ DVDs series published by Warner Bros. 1999. - Book, co-author, "Strofe Sfiziose", All’insegna del pesce d’oro (In the name of the gold fish, publisher) by Vanni Scheiwiller. Milan, 1998 - Article in a Book: "Marinetti e i Futuristi a Capri" ("Marinetti and the Futurists in Capri"). In Elisabetta Traini (Ed.) Bragaglia racconta Bragaglia, carosello di divagazioni saggi e ricordi (Bragaglia tells Bragaglia, essays and memories). All’insegna del pesce d’oro (In the name of the gold fish, publisher) by Vanni Scheiwiller. Milan, 1997. - Booklet, Marsala, the taste of a city, INC (National Institute of Communication). Rome, 1997. - Book, researcher, La "scuola" italiana: storia, strutture e immaginario di un altro cinema (1988-1996) (The Italian "school": history, structures and imaginary of another cinema). (Pesaro Film festival). Pesaro, 1996. - Book, co-author, Extravagant strophes by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, illustrated by his friends of cinema, All’insegna del pesce d’oro (In the name of the gold fish, publisher) by Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan, 1994.

Academic Publications

"From Mass Media immigration to professional workers – A portrait of the present Italian ‘Comunità’ in Ontario", Italian Canadiana, Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Studies. University of Toronto, Vol.26-29 (2012-2015) "The Global Intercultural Communication Reader", Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 40 N. 4 (2015). published in the

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. "Global Media Ethics", Edited by Stephen J.A. Ward, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, published in the

Presentations

In Washington, in March 2013, she presented at the PCA CA Conference "From mass immigration to professional workers - A portrait of the present Italian "comunità" in Ontario (Canada). In Toronto, in 2006 she presented the lecture, ''Multiculturalism in the World of Mass Media During the Digital Era'', for the Iacobucci Center of Italian Studies at the

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, and published in the book ''The Virtual Piazza''. She also held the lecture ''Italy and Italians on the North American Silver Screen'', at 79th Congress of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, in November 2002 at the

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