Angelo Paura
I am the U.S. correspondent for Il Messaggero, one of Italy’s leading daily newspapers, where I report on politics, finance, the economy, and the intersection of media, technology, AI and power.
I worked as Editorial Director at Blasting News, where I led newsroom innovation, fact-checking initiatives, and explored AI applications in journalism. I also managed two EU-funded projects: Fake News Sicily and Eunomia.
I worked as an analyst and editor at NewsGuard, evaluating the reliability of news outlets worldwide, and collaborated with the NYU Media Lab at NYU to develop and produce a newsletter on AI and local news.
My reporting and analysis have appeared in Politico Europe, BBC World Service, MediaShift, ProPublica, Motherboard, the International Center for Journalists, the Tow-Knight Center, BuzzFeed, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Corriere della Sera and Mediaset - Tgcom24, among others.
I hold a Master’s degree in Engagement Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, New York. I am a U.S. and Italian citizen. I’m based in New York.
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Over the past 15 years, I’ve been based between New York and London, working as an editor, writer, and editorial director with a strong focus on artificial intelligence, fact-checking, and newsroom innovation. I’ve also covered major U.S. political and economic events, from Trump’s 2024 campaign to the latest developments in Silicon Valley. Additionally, I reported on the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, finance, and the global economy for Il Messaggero, one of Italy’s leading broadsheets.
Editorial Director at Blasting News
For five years, I oversaw a newsroom of ten staff editors based across six countries (the U.S., U.K., Italy, Spain, France, and Brazil), along with over 100 freelance editors and 500 freelance writers. I also developed new projects within the company, including the BlastingTalks interview series, a new subscription model, an EU-funded project on misinformation, a video series, a weekly fake news roundup, and an investigative vertical called Blasting Investigations. More broadly, I worked to ensure the highest editorial standards across all Blasting News editions. Here are some examples of the initiatives I led at Blasting News:
- My interview with Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google;
- My interview with Sally Lerhman, chief executive of the Trust Project;
- Blasting News subscription model workshop
- Blasting News workshop for four Sicilian Universities (in Italian)
- BlastingTalks (the media theorist roundup / the climate change series)
- Blasting Investigations (In Italian)
- An example of the Fake News Roundup
- The Fake News Channel I developed at Blasting News
- A case study in Italian about a migrants, journalism and credibility
- My article about hackers in the Ukraine war.
A selection of my articles (in progress)
- The Ethical Challenges of Immersive Journalism (MediaShift)
- Costs, myths and ethics plague growth of immersive journalism
- The way to an Italian populist’s heart is through his stomach (Politico)
- Richard Gingras: Journalism has to teach citizens how to think, not what to think
- Sally Lehrman: Real journalism is designed to serve the public
- For the next international confrontation, look at the moon
- VR Gives New Life to an Interactive Documentary
- Chi crede ai rettiliani (Italian)
- Breve guida al mondo del biohacking (Italian)
- Bianchi, ricchi e arrabbiati. La fine del sogno americano (Italian)
- Hugo Gernsback, l'uomo che ci ha fatto innamorare del futuro (Italian)
- A passionate profile of Jaron Lanier for Forbes (Italian)
- La politica degli algoritmi (Italian)
I also wrote a New York guide for Dove, the travel magazine of il Corriere della Sera.
And I interviewed the ethologist Frans de Waal and the actor David Harbour for Style, the men’s lifestyle magazine of Il Corriere della Sera.
Analyst and editor at NewsGuard
NewsGuard is a New York-based startup focused on transparency and credibility in the media. I wrote and edited several media analyses both in English and Italian. Here some examples of analyses I wrote or edited:
- Il Primato Nazionale, a far-right website owned by the fascist movement Casapound.
- Sputnik News, the Italian website of a Russian state-owned international news agency.
- La Verità, a far-right Italian website that has published false and misleading content.
- Disinformazione and MaurizioBlondet.it, two conspiracy theory websites.
I also wrote this piece (in Italian) about NewsGuard’s news literacy project with public libraries. For NewsGuard I oversaw the partnership with the Milan Library system and ran a workshop with more than 50 librarians.
My Talks / Lessons / Workshops
- CUNY University with Jamie Pallot - December 2017
- Giorgio Bocca Journalism School at Turin University with Jeff Jarvis - October 2019
- Scuola Holden, Turin - November 2019
- Milan Public Library with NewsGuard - December 2019
- Università Cattolica Journalism School, Milan - May 2020
- CUBI - East Milan Library system - June 2020
- University of Palermo, Catania, Enna and Messina with Blasting News - 2020, 2021, 2022
- University of Cagliari, panel with the AIRC about health and misinformation - May 2023
- WP Publisher Success Week by State of Digital Publisher - Feb. 2024
Sometimes they interview me, mostly about the US, tech, and misinformation
- In an interview with the European Journalism Observatory I talked about NewsGuard in Italy:
https://en.ejo.ch/ethics-quality/newsguards-news-trust-ratings-rolled-out-to-europe
- Me talking about Blasting News for Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2021/02/alumni-newsletter-february-2021/
- Me talking about COVID-19 and misinformation in the radio program Europa Europa on Radio24:
https://bit.ly/2JyzC18
- I did several live interviews at Radio Uno, talking about all things United States:
http://bit.ly/37Z2VmJ
- Interview for the Italian podcast I will Survive on Radio DeeJay about biohacking.
Books and projects
- An academic publication about fake news, part of an EU funded project.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1260606
- An essay about the power of algorithms for this anthology:
https://deditore.com/prodotto/datacrazia/
- My preface to the Italian translation of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human:
https://luz.it/spns_article/douglas-rushkoff-team-human-intervista/
My reading list (Fall-Winter 2025)
- Stephen King, On Writing
- Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I
- Tim Wu, The Age of Extraction
- Karen Hao, Empire of AI
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
- David Carr, The Night of the Gun