Giuliano Marrucci (born 24 December 1976) is an Italian
investigative journalist.
Biography
Marrucci was born in the town of
Mirano and then moved to
Pisa as a child in 1984. He earned a degree at the technical institute for social activities "Chiara Gambacorti". He is the son of Enrico Marrucci, who was an MP for the
Italian Communist Party.
In the late '90s, while he was attending
Physics
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at the
University of Pisa, he began to produce reports as a freelance
videojournalist in
India
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, since his main intellectual interest was, and still is, the process of the "great return" on the global scene of the "Asian giants" India and
China
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.
From 2001 to 2022, he was one of the authors of the investigative journalism programme ''
Report on
Rai 3. From 2010 to 2014 he has also been collaborating with the daily newspaper ''
Il Fatto Quotidiano'' and from 2011 to 2015 with the newspaper ''
Corriere della Sera''.
In 2021, he was one of the founders of OttolinaTV, a web TV.
Controversies
His network, OttolinaTV,has being accused of spreading russian propaganda and fake news.
The network has been accused of spreading fascist ideas using left-wing rhetoric by the magazine
Micromega and sharing misinformation by independent fact-checker David Puente.
Works
* ''Cemento rosso. Il secolo cinese mattone dopo mattone'', 2017, Mimesis.
* ''L'economia geopolitica di OttolinaTv. Cronaca del fallimento della narrazione economica dominante'', 2024, Poets&Sailors.
Awards and honours
* "Elio Botti - come acqua saliente" prize, 2018. For the report "Goccia a goccia".
References
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1976 births
Living people
21st-century Italian journalists