Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013; a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2022 to his death in 2023, and previously from March to November 2013; and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2022, and previously from 1999 to 2001. With a net worth of US$6.8 billion as of June 2023, Berlusconi was the third-wealthiest person in Italy at the time of his death. The state funeral of Berlusconi was held on 14 June 2023.
Leonardo S.p.A., formerly Leonardo-Finmeccanica and originally Finmeccanica, is an Italian multinational company specialising in aerospace, defence and security. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, the company has 180 sites worldwide. It is the eighth largest defence contractor in the world based on 2018 revenues. The company is partially owned by the Italian government, which holds 30.2% of the company's shares and is its largest shareholder.
la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo, and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Born as a leftist newspaper, it has since moderated to a milder centre-left political stance, and moved further to the centre after the appointment of Maurizio Molinari as editor.
Malaysiakini is an online news portal published in Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil. Since its founding, Malaysiakini had consistently ranked as one of the most read news portal in Malaysia. Malaysiakini is unaffiliated with Malaysianow - a much smaller news website that uses the English translation of Malaysiakini as its name.
l'Unità is an Italian newspaper, founded as the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1924. It was supportive of that party's successor parties, the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the Left, and, from October 2007 until its closure in 2017, the Democratic Party.
il Giornale, known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as il Giornale nuovo, is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan.
Raw Story is an American progressive news website. It was founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne and is owned by Byrne and Michael Rogers.
Poste Italiane is the Italian postal service provider. Besides providing postal services, Italian Post Group offers communications, postal savings products, logistics, and financial and insurance services throughout Italy.
The Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), founded in 1928, is situated at the via Salaria 691 in Rome. As well as producing coins, passports, and postage stamps for Italy, it serves the micro-states of the Vatican City, San Marino, and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. It also publishes books under the imprint Libreria dello Stato. The O.C.V. and traditional productions factory, the multimedial production institute and the Mint are also located in the capital. Other factories are located in Verrès, Val d'Aosta, and Foggia, Apulia. Banknotes are produced by the Bank of Italy.
Punto Informatico is an Italian online newspaper.
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Italy is .it and is sponsored by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. The .eu domain is also used, as it is shared with other European Union member states.
Mario Calvo-Platero is an Italian journalist who has been the US editor of the prestigious Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore for over 30 years up to 2017. Now he is a columnist for La Stampa. He obtained the U.S. citizenship.
il Fatto Quotidiano is an Italian daily newspaper owned by Editoriale Il Fatto S.p.A. published in Rome. It was founded on 23 September 2009 and was edited by Antonio Padellaro until 2015, when Marco Travaglio became the editor.
Ignazio Visco is an Italian economist and central banker and the current Governor of the Bank of Italy.
Il Post is an Italian online daily newspaper, founded and directed in 2010 by Luca Sofri. The editorial staff includes journalists Arianna Cavallo, Francesco Costa, Luca Misculin, Elena Zacchetti, Giulia Balducci and Emanuele Menietti, as well as contributions from Luca Sofri and a number of other collaborators. The business model is based on revenue from advertising, since reading the newspaper is free and requires no registration; the newspaper is also sponsored by a group of investors of whom the main partner is the Banzai company, an Italian Internet holding company that controls the graphic design, technological aspects and advertising revenues.
Bianca Maria Berlinguer is an Italian journalist. She was the director of TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.
Francesco Maria Avitto, journalist and expert on science and healthcare economist, has directed numerous newspapers in Italy including Adnkronos Salute, Doctor's Life, and Popular Science Italia.
Michele Geraci is an Italian politician with an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his expertise in Chinese economics, having spent many years abroad in China, where he became fluent in Mandarin. He was Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, responsible for international trade and foreign direct investments. in the Conte Government.
Andrea Marinelli is a journalist for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. At Corriere he works at the foreign desk and covers US news. Previously, he worked together with Milena Gabanelli in the investigative data-journalism project Dataroom. Marinelli lived in New York City for many years and wrote dozens of reportages from the United States. Before joining Corriere della Sera, he wrote for Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Manifesto, International Business Times and many other publications.
Francesco Giubilei is an Italian publisher, columnist and conservative writer. From December 2022 to June 2023, he has been a special advisor for the Italian Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano.
