Luca Spinelli
Luca Spinelli is a Swiss investigative journalist. Born in Italy, he is a columnist for various newspapers, editor-in-chief of LaNotizia and founder of the open source project Oscon.
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[edit] Biography
Spinelli started writing for VNU Business Publications, Feltrinelli and other publishers. Since January 2007, he has been a columnist for the newspaper Punto Informatico. His articles also appeared on Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Il Manifesto, RAI.
Spinelli is known for some of his investigations witch gave rise to widespread controversy. In July 2007, Parliament deputy Franco Grillini appended one of Spinelli's investigations about copyright to a parliamentary inquiry towards vice-Prime Minister Francesco Rutelli, to clear up some conduct of the public administration.[1]
In December 2007, Spinelli's reporting on a security bill promoted by the Government led to a correction of the text in the Council of Ministers of Italy.[2] In 2008, his investigation about the Government budget revealed the intention to establish public funding for record labels, causing the reaction of Senator Gabriella Carlucci and the FIMI.[3]
Between 2007 and 2008, Spinelli wrote an investigation about the institutional web portal Italia.it, criticizing the shutdown of the web site and the waste of public money. On February 2008 his investigation of a bill by Ricardo Franco Levi led to a widespread controversy which brought to a national initiative by Beppe Grillo, harsh criticism by other journalists and politicians (Gad Lerner, Vincenzo Vita, Giuseppe Giulietti, Pino Scaccia), and finally the withdrawal of the bill.[4]
In 2008 Spinelli wrote with the lawyer G. Scorza the proposed law and initiative called "Give a meaning to the decay", with the signatures of the MPs Bruno Mellano, Mauro Bulgarelli, Elio Veltri and others.[5] In 2008 he became editor-in-chief of the Swiss magazine LaNotizia. The next year, his journalistic investigation „La Camera manda avanti il Ddl anti-blog“ was nominated for the Ischia International Journalism Award (2009).[6] In March 2009, he released, in national preview, the news of the fall of Swiss into the gray list of tax heavens.[7]
Spinelli is author of interviews with Antonio Di Pietro, Corrado Bohm, Ludwig Minelli and others.
Amongst the Italian expert on accessibility, he published educational articles and reviews. He has lectured and done scientific consulting at the University of Genoa.
[edit] Awards and nominations
| Year | Work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | journalistic investigation „La Camera manda avanti il Ddl anti-blog“ | Ischia International Journalism Award | Nominated |
[edit] References
- ^ Parliamentary inquiry by deputy Franco Grillini
- ^ Punto Informatico, Ddl sicurezza, 2007
- ^ Punto Informatico, Public funding for record labels, 2007
- ^ Reactions to Ddl Levi, 2008
- ^ Diritto, Give a meaning to the decay, 2008
- ^ Ischia Awards, 2009, 30. April 2009, Nova100 - Il Sole 24 Ore
- ^ LaNotizia, Tax heavens list, 2009
[edit] External links
- Liquida Magazine, Interview with Luca Spinelli, April 2009 (Italian)
