Draft:Spotlight (television program)
| Spotlight | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Investigative journalism |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Rai News 24 |
| Release | 2020 - present |
Production Team[edit]
- Curated by Valerio Cataldi (2020-), Redazione Approfondimenti e inchieste (this was removed at the start of the 4th season)
- Editor in Chief/Managing Editor: Alessandro Solarino (2023-present)
- Senior Editor: Sabrina Bellomo (2023-present)
- Graphic Design: Alessandro Cossu (2020-present)
- Research: Tiziani Battisti (2020-2023)
- Program's Assistant: Nicola Ferrara (2023-present)
- In the Editorial Office: Giulia Bosetti, Pino Finocchiaro, Luca Gaballo, Salah Methnani, Augusto Piccioni, Giorgio Iacoboni, Manuela Lasagna, Zouhir Louassini, Maria Elena Scandaliato, Adele Grossi
Episodes[edit]
Series overview[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 16 | December 18, 2020 | August 22, 2021 | |
| 2 | 31 | September 17, 2021 | July 31, 2022 | |
| 3 | 35 | August 22, 2022 | August 31, 2023 | |
| 4 | 30 | September 28, 2023 | July 6, 2024 | |
Season 1 (2020-2021)[edit]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Mario, che costruiva la pace" | Valerio Cataldi | December 18, 2020 | |
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"Rainews 24's investigative trip to Colombia, on the trail of Mario Paciolla, the young United Nations volunteer who died in still unclear circumstances. We start again from San Vicente del Caguan, in Caquetà, the region where Mario had been engaged for two years in operations to facilitate the peace process started with the 2016 Cuba agreements, between the Colombian government and the FARC, the Colombian revolutionary armed forces. There are still many open questions, to which an answer has been awaited from the United Nations Mission for 5 months. First of all those relating to the tampering with Mario's apartment, from which objects disappeared, taken by the Mission's security manager, as he himself admitted, and thrown away. By Valerio Cataldi" | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Rsa fuori controllo" | Maria Elena Scandaliato | January 29, 2021 | |
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"Maria Elena Scandaliato's investigation into the lack of checks in the RSAs of Milan in the first period of the pandemic. The episode of Spotlight, the Rainews24 investigative programme, starts from the dozens of complaints from those days and tries to reconstruct what happened through exclusive interviews and unpublished documents." | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Divieto di accesso. La storia che Ilaria e Miran non hanno potuto raccontare" | Luca Gaballo with collaboration from Andrea Palladino | March 19, 2021 | |
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"March 20, 1994, Mogadishu: Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin are murdered in an ambush. A story still without culprits, but full of red herrings. The Spotlight investigation" | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "I 600 corpi l'identità cancellata dei desaparecidos" | Maria Elena Scandaliato and Alessandra Solarino | March 21, 2021 | |
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"On the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the day in which the over 30 thousand desaparecidos, who disappeared during the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, are celebrated, an investigation on the traces of two former South American officers who fled to Italy, Carlos Sick Argentine military and Josè Nestor Troccoli from Uruguayan. The EAAF[N 1], the Forensic Anthropology Team, recovered 1500 bodies in mass graves and identified 850 of them thanks to DNA. Another 600 bodies are still unnamed. Among these there could be 65 Italians, who disappeared into thin air in these days of ferocious military dictatorship. By Maria Elena Scandaliato and Alessandra Solarino. The investigation is a co-production with Telam, Argentina's state news agency." | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Intercettati. Le anomalie dell'inchiesta sulle Ong" | Valerio Cataldi and Maria Elena Scandaliato with collaboration from Andrea Palladino | April 19, 2021 | |
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"Five journalists intercepted without being investigated. Five lawyers intercepted while talking to their clients. From the Trapani investigation into NGOs[N 2], an "investigative system" emerges which Justice Minister Marta Cartabia, who has already sent inspectors, also wants to see clearly. But what is known so far is only the tip of the iceberg. Preview / The words of the jurist and former Keeper of the Seals Giovanni Maria Flick In the 30 thousand pages filed, thousands of interceptions apparently irrelevant for investigative purposes, which also involve Parliamentarians and Prefects, are transcribed. An operation to listen to anyone involved in migration, Libya, human rights. A story that Rainews 24, The Guardian and Domani are able to tell through a joint investigation, which united the editorial staff in an unprecedented journalistic operation that will be published simultaneously by the 3 newspapers on the web, on TV and on newsstands. An investigation that analyzes in detail the 30 thousand pages of the Trapani investigation" | |||||