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Carlo Bollino (15 November 1961) is an Italian journalist, writer.
Biography
At a very young age he began his career as a journalist in the first radio stations in Lecce (Radio Nice International and Radio Rama).
He began working in the press at the "Quotidiano" of Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto. He became a professional journalist at the age of 24, in 1985.
He moved to "La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno", as a crime news editor, first in Salento, and then throughout southern Italy. For over a decade he has dealt with all the main mafia and crime stories that took place in Salento, Puglia and Basilicata.
In 1989 he was appointed special correspondent and moved to Bari at the headquarters of La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, where he then took on the role of central editor-in-chief. In 1990 he conducted an in-depth journalistic investigation in Basilicata on the connections between crime, politics and economics. In 1991 he began to deal with foreign policy and followed the war in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, and then the fall of communism in various Eastern European countries. In 1993 he refounded (after many years) and directed in Albania, on behalf of Edisud, the daily Gazeta Shqiptare and then the radio station "Radio Rash", the news portal "Balkanweb" (in Albanian) and the television station "News24". This publishing group will be the second most important information center in the country.
In 1999 he became correspondent for the Ansa news agency for the Balkans: he was a war correspondent in Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
After living for 14 years in Tirana, in July 2007 he moved to the Middle East, where he took over the leadership of the ANSA correspondence office in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
In May 2008 he returned to Bari as director of La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. In these years of return to the front of Italian journalism, his civil passion is also rekindled. Among other things, his initiative to oppose an Italian government law that threatens to limit the freedom of the press, earned him the 2009 Cronista award of the city of Viareggio and the appreciation of the national union of Italian journalists.
In October 2014 he resigned from the editorship of the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and returned to live in Albania where he leads a new editorial group composed of all news television A1Report, (today Report-tv) and by the portal and newspaper in Albanian language Shqiptarja.com and in January 2016, he received Albanian citizenship.
He was the creator of the museums on communism Bunk'Art 1 and Bunk'Art 2 in Tirana, set up inside fallout bunkers built by the communist dictator Enver Hoxha during the years of the Cold War. He is still the general curator of both museums.
In March 2021 the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, paid tribute to the Apulian/Albanian Carlo Bollino, former Director of 'La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno', during his visit to the City Hall - where he was welcomed by Mayor Antonio Decaro - on the occasion of his visit to Bari.
Awards and recognition
- On 30 June 2012 he received the Terra del Sole Awards as an exponent of the professional excellence of Apulia.
- On 31 August 2013 he received a special recognition from the Il Sallentino award, sponsored by the Presidency of the Italian Republic.
Publications
In 1987 he published the book "La posta in gioco", an investigation into the murder in Nardò of Renata Fonte, published by Carmine De Benedittis and Antonella Mascali: from the text was then made into a film, entitled La posta in gioco (film)|homonymous directed by Sergio Nasca.
References
- La Vlora al porto di Bari, il più grande sbarco dei profughi albanesi lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it
- premio Cronista 2009 della città di Viareggio
- Edi Rama, omaggio a Carlo Bollino: pugliese d'origine e albanese d'adozione affaritaliani.it
- Terra del Sole Awards
- a special recognition