WIKIPEDIA — Angelo Paura

Angelo Paura

I am the U.S. correspondent for Il Messaggero, one of Italy's leading daily newspapers, covering politics, finance, the economy, and the intersection of technology, AI and power. I am based in New York.

Previously, I was Editorial Director at Blasting News, where I led a multinational newsroom, developed fact-checking initiatives, and managed two EU-funded projects on misinformation: Fake News Sicily and Eunomia. Before that, I worked as an analyst and editor at NewsGuard, evaluating the credibility of news outlets across multiple countries. I also collaborated with the NYU Media Lab to develop a newsletter on AI and local news.

My reporting and analysis have appeared in Politico Europe, BBC World Service, ProPublica, MediaShift, Motherboard, BuzzFeed, the International Center for Journalists, the Tow-Knight Center, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Corriere della Sera and Mediaset-Tgcom24, among others.

I hold a Master's in Engagement Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. I am a U.S. and Italian citizen.

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“Wikipedia is not Digital Maoism”

In 2017, I had the opportunity to interview Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia — someone I had first met a few months earlier during my fellowship at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

At the time, public conversations around algorithms, data exploitation, and the growing power of tech giants — as we know them today — were just beginning to take shape. I had been living in the United States for six years and still felt genuinely inspired by the Silicon Valley model and the sense of technological utopia it carried: the ambition to make the world better by making information more open and accessible.

That spirit was very much present in the 2017 interview, during which we discussed, among other topics, WikiTribune — an ambitious experiment in participatory journalism that, in my view, never received the recognition or success it deserved.

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