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Enrico Deaglio (born 11 April 1947) is an Italianjournalist,writer andTV presenter.
Deaglio was born inTurin, where he graduated in medicine (June 1971) and worked in the Mauriziano Hospital.
In the mid-1970s, he started his journalism career for the communist newspaperLotta continua, of which he was editor from 1977 to 1982. Later he worked for numerous national newspapers and magazines, includingLa Stampa,Il Manifesto,Panorama,Epoca andl'Unità. From 1985 to 1986 he was the editor of the newspaperReporter.
Since the later 1980s, he has worked for the news showMixer onRAI TV, focusing in particular on the Sicilian mafia and events Abroad. In the 1990s he hosted several shows onRai Tre, such asMilano, Italia (January–June 1994),Ragazzi del '99 (1999),Così va il mondo,Vento del Nord andL'Elmo di Scipio. From 1997 to 2008 he was editor of the weeklyDiario.
In 2006 his TV documentaryUccidete la democrazia! (Kill Democracy!), where he suggested that electronic votes in the2006 Italian general elections were manipulated in favour ofSilvio Berlusconi's party,House of Freedoms, generated significant controversies. Deaglio's theory was subsequently discarded by an official recount of ballots by the Italian Parliament.[1]
His brother, Mario Deaglio, is an economist at theUniversity of Turin.
