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Stefania Maurizi

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Stefania Maurizi is an Italian investigative journalist working for the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, after 14 years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso and the Italian daily La Repubblica. She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents since 2009. Among international journalists, she is the only one who has worked on all WikiLeaks secret documents, excepting the very few published by WikiLeaks without media partners. She is also the only journalist who has conducted multi-jurisdictional litigation to defend the right of the press to access the full documentation on Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks journalists. For her work on the WikiLeaks case she has been a commentator on media outlets like the Washington Post, BBC World Service, the Guardian, and various television and radio outlets. Stefania's investigative work focuses on state criminality and the abuse of state secrecy, when secrecy is used not to protect the safety and security of citizens but to conceal state crimes. She strongly believes in the strength of investigative journalism and its mission to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted. In addition to her work on WikiLeaks, she has partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. In her book "Secret Power. WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" (Pluto Press, foreword by Ken Loach), she reconstructs the Assange and WikiLeaks case based on her over ten years of investigative journalism. The book has received excellent endorsements from eminent figures like Pulitzer Prize winner Ewan MacAskill, legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, and Roger Waters, renowned co-founder of Pink Floyd. She also authored Dossier WikiLeaks. Segreti Italiani (with foreword by Julian Assange) and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie, the latter translated into Japanese. In addition to the European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism, and the 2022 Premio Alessandro Leogrande for investigative journalism in narrative form, Stefania has won a number of other major journalistic prizes, including the Armenise Harvard Fellowship and the Colomba D’Oro Award conferred by Archivio Disarmo.
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