SANDRO NERI

Biography

Sandro Neri, 60, has been a professional journalist for over 33 years. He was Director of the daily newspaper Il Giorno from February 1, 2017 to June 30, 2022, and since July 1, 2022 has been Head of the weekly QN Economia and of the economics desk of Quotidiano Nazionale. He lives and works in Milan. He holds a degree in Philosophy with a specialization in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Milan. He began working as a journalist at a very young age, while still in high school. He worked for La Stampa (Novara bureau), for Gruppo L'Espresso, and at the Agl news agency, both in Milan and in Rome, and in the mid-1990s he joined Gruppo Monrif, which publishes the dailies Il Giorno, il Resto del Carlino and La Nazione. He started at Polipress, the Group's news agency in Milan, then served as a staff writer for il Resto del Carlino in Forlì, and later at La Nazione in Florence, in the newsroom of the online newspaper Quotidiano.Net. He has been with Il Giorno since July 1999, where he worked as an editor at the paper's Central Desk and later at the Metropoli desk. In 2003 he became deputy head of the Milan local news desk, and later served as deputy chief news editor and then chief news editor. He was appointed Central Editor-in-Chief in January 2012, and became Deputy Director in September 2015. Over the course of his career he has covered local news, crime, judicial affairs and economics. He is the author of several books, devoted both to the world of political extremism and Italian mysteries of the 1970s, and to the history of pop and rock music. In 2006 he won the Lunezia Prize with one of his publications. In 2017 he was awarded the International Five Stars Journalism Prize. In 2018 he taught a lecture course in the Master's in Journalism at the Graduate School of Social Communications of the Catholic University, where for several years he also taught Theory and Techniques of Journalistic Language. In November 2021 he received the Guidarello Prize for Author Journalism. On November 11, 2022 he published the essay "Gaber" with Hoepli, released for the twentieth anniversary of the artist's death, which was among the six finalists for the 2023 Bancarella Prize. In June 2023 he won the International Journalism Prize "Mare Nostrum Awards" with the article "Autostrade del Mare: Italy and Greece are even closer," published in Quotidiano Nazionale. A frequent guest at Rotary evenings, he has been awarded the Paul Harris Fellow.