Riccardo Barenghi

Interview

• "Journalism in the Front Line" (Rome, 14/04/1999)

Biography

Riccardo Barenghi was born in Rome, 13 March 1957. He graduated in classical liceo in 1976. In 1978 he worked for six months as a researcher in RAI Corporation in New York. Returning to Rome, he began his career as a journalist in1980, at the age of 23, in Il Manifesto, where he still works. He initially specialised in national news, and later union news and politics. He was head of national news for three years, editor-in-chief for four years, and was then appointed deputy-editor, a post he held until March 1998. In 1985 he wrote "Ventiquattro marzo", (Datanews) with Sandro Medici. The book dealt with the conflict between the government and the unions over the scala mobile (the sliding scale of index-linked annual pay rises) during the Bettino Craxi administration. He has twice presented RAI's radio current affairs magazine Prima pagina as well as several night-time broadcasts.