SIGFRIDO RANUCCI - DIARIO DI UN TRAPEZISTA. CRONACHE DI RESILIENZA DI UN REPORTER
Description
SECOND EVENT OF REVERSO 2026
Diary of a Trapeze Artist tells the story of a secret Sigfrido, a parallel version of the one we’re used to seeing on TV. A reporter who, in order to carry out his investigations, had to make sudden decisions that sometimes changed his life forever. “There are people who, through their presence and their choices—even while remaining in the shadows—have been instrumental in the success of my investigations; people who seem to have stepped out of a novel."
There is a vagabond who helps me land the most important international scoop in the history of Rai, the one on the bombings of Fallujah, where the United States used the chemical agent white phosphorus. Then there’s a taxi driver who helps me track down Tanzi’s art collection—dozens of masterpieces worth millions of euros that had eluded the investigations of two prosecutors’ offices and the world’s leading international investigative agency, Krol.
A Swiss producer who spends her sleepless nights saving toads, and who saved me from the trap set by a politician who had me spied on to block my investigation into his administration and ruin my career. Then there’s a vice principal who helped me conduct an investigation into arms trafficking, and a robber from Puglia who witnessed the mafia’s order to kill me. There’s the teacher who filmed the mysterious meeting between Senator Matteo Renzi and former 007 Marco Mancini at a highway rest stop.
Finally, there’s Lavinia, a bodyguard who helped me thwart a plan by some politicians to replace me as the host of #Report. I’ve come to believe that everyone I’ve met in my life had a purpose; those who have left did so because they had fulfilled that purpose. They all took a piece of me with them and taught me something—some even taught me not to be like them.
Sigfrido Ranucci (Rome, August 24, 1961) is a journalist, author, and television host. With RAI since 1990, he first worked as a correspondent for Tg3’s news segments, then for Rai News 24, where he produced numerous investigative reports on illegal waste trafficking and the Mafia. He conducted the final interview with Judge Paolo Borsellino; in September 2001, he was sent to New York to cover the attack on the Twin Towers, and then to Sumatra in 2004 for the tsunami. He has been a correspondent in war zones in the Balkans and the Middle East, where he conducted investigations into human rights violations, and since March 2017 has hosted the television program Report (Rai3), which he took over from its creator, Milena Gabanelli. He has received numerous awards for investigative journalism and is the co-author, with Nicola Biondo, of the book Il patto (Chiarelettere, 2010).
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