ITALIAN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST STEFANIA MAURIZI
Investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, in an exclusive in depth interview, will be our only guest. Special co host is Argentine journalist and Pagina12 editor Sergio Kiernan, who joins us from Buenos Aires.
This interview is part of our ongoing series Julian Assange: Countdown To Freedom.
Stefania Maurizi works for the Italian daily la Repubblica as an investigative journalist, after ten years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents, and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of the Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. She authored two books: Dossier WikiLeaks. Segreti Italiani and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie, the latter translated into Japanese.
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Sergio Kiernan is a journalist, the Sunday Editor at the national daily Página/12, and the Architectural, Preservation and Urban Affairs Editor of the weekly supplement M2.