Michele Cucuzza

Michele Cucuzza (born in 1952) is an Italian journalist, news speaker and television presenter.

Born in Catania, the son of the volcanologist Salvatore Cucuzza Silvestri, Cucuzza became professional journalist in 1979 and he started his career for the radio Radio Popolare. In 1985 he became a collaborator of RAI TV, working as a redactor, a correspondent and for about ten years as a news speaker of TG2. In 1998 he became the presenter of La Vita in diretta, a Rai 1 infotainment program broadcast in the afternoon. He considers himself a "dubious Christian" after a long personal spirititual quest.

Biography

Son of Salvatore Cucuzza Silvestri, a volcanologist and professor at the University of Catania, he has two daughters, Carlotta and Matilde. He began as a journalist in Sicily at the daily Catania Sera, covering Society issues. Moved to Milan in 1973 and collaborated with the newspaper Il Giorno and with the press office of the Italian Labour Union union. In 1976 he was among the founders of Radio Popolare with Piero Scaramucci, Nini Briglia, Gad Lerner and others. He graduated in modern literature from the University of Milan. In 1979 he became a professional journalist, enrolled in the Lazio Order of Journalists.

In 1983 he began working with RAI, also in Milan, where he was hired as an editor. Until 1987, Cucuzza produced reports and links for the various public service, radio and television newspapers. It follows the major news events of those years, from terrorism, the Tortora case, the Banco Ambrosiano affairs, the death of Michele Sindona, and the 1987 Valtellina flood. Called to Rome in 1987 to anchor TG2, he is also a foreign correspondent, making reports, links and specials from France, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and India, and following the major social and political events and of the period.