Riccardo Iacona(II)
Riccardo Iacona is an Italian journalist, television author and TV presenter. After completing the Liceo Ginnasio "Torquato Tasso" in Rome, he graduated from the DAMS in Bologna. Then, he became assistant director in the period between 1980 and 1987 for both film and television. In 1987 he began working for Rai 3, initially in Scenario by Andrea Barbato, then in Duello and finally in Samarcanda, Il Rosso e il Nero and Michele Santoro's Tempo Reale. In 1996 he left Rai together with Santoro to become an author of the Moby dick and Moby's programs on Italia 1. he returns to Rai again together with Michele Santoro with whom he continues his collaboration working in Circus and Sciuscià. He generally deals with investigative journalism characterized by strong personal involvement. For this characteristic, his reportage could be defined as "emotional reportage". He has made numerous programs, broadcast by Rai Tre, on various realities of Italian life, such as: W the spouses, W the market, W the research and the series of inquiries W Italy in March 2006. In the three episodes of Pane and politics, broadcast by Rai Tre in March 2007, describes the Italian politics of the new millennium in three different contexts: a city (Catanzaro), a region (the Regional Council of Calabria), finally reaching the national parliament. In 2008 he made two reportages on the war in Afghanistan and the war in Kosovo, entitled The infinite war [4], broadcast on 19 and 26 September 2008. At the beginning of 2009, five episodes of his new program were broadcast on Rai 3. inquiry Direct socket. Since June 2009, the last three episodes of the eight-episode cycle of Direct Presa have been on the air. From January to March 2010, a new six-episode series of Direct Presa has been broadcast. In 2017, an investigation began to tell what happens in the rooms of the buildings where justice is exercised and in 2018, with the book Palace of Injustice, he opens a glimpse into the autonomy of the prosecutors on which the functioning of democracy depends.