Marcello Foa
Marcello Foa is EJO’s cofounder. He was born in Milan, Italy, in 1963. He is a citizen of both Italy and Switzerland. Mr. Foa has a degree in Political Science from the University of Milan. He began his journalistic career in Lugano in 1984. In 1989, he went on to become Deputy Foreign Editor and by 1993, Foreign Editor of Il Giornale, one of the leading Italian newspapers founded and managed at that time by Indro Montanelli, widely considered the best italian journalist. From August of 2005 to November 2010 he worked as a Special Correspondent for International Affairs at Il Giornale and contributed to a number of TV and radio networks, among them BBC Radio, Italian RAI, Mediaset, and Swiss Public TV RSI. In December 2010 he became the online editor atwww.ilgiornale.it.
Mr. Foa is currently the CEO of Timedia, a Swiss publishing group based in Lugano.
In 2004, he began a career in academia. Along with Professor Dr. Stephan Russ-Mohl, he founded the European Journalism Observatory. He lectures on international journalism in Lugano at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and in Milan at the Università Cattolica. At the Università della Svizzera italiana, he gives communications lectures with a focus on political spin for the Public Management and Policy Masters Program. At the University of Milano he lectures on international journalism and political spin. His academic research focuses on institutional communication and spin. Additionally, he is the author of a book on spin-doctoring entitled Gli Stregoni della Notizia (The Wizards of Information, Guerini e Associati, 2006). He also wrote a historical novel entitled Il Ragazzo del Lago (The Boy by the Lake, Piemme, 2010).
