Maurizio Molinari

Molinari arrived at La Stampa in 1997, and for over a decade he worked as a correspondent, first from Brussels, then from New York City, and since 2014 from Jerusalem and Ramallah, before returning to Turin as editor-in-chief in 2016.

He has occasionally been a panelist on CNN, CBS and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, aired on the Public Broadcasting Service.

Molinari is the author of 21 non-fiction books, all published in Italian: The Jews in Italy: A Problem of Identity (1870-1938) (published by La Giuntina in 1991), The Left and Jews in Italy (1967-1993) (Corbaccio, 1995), The National Interest (Laterza, 2000), Between White House and Botteghe Oscure: Interview with Lamberto Dini (Guerini and Ass, 2001), Wall Street in the Third Millennium (Fondazione Liberal), 2003, No Global?

[2] In December 2017, Molinari became editorial director of GNN, the Gedi News Network that includes La Stampa, Secolo XIX and the local papers of the former Finegil Group.

[3][4][5] In November 2021, Molinari was attacked by Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Kremlin's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because of a news analysis about Putin's grip on the European Union.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a hybrid threat", wrote Molinari, "generating parallel crises to grip the European Union in a vice".