The account of a secret Sigfrido, parallel to the one you are used to seeing on air, who, in order to carry out investigations, had to make choices that have forever affected his life.
I have learned that it is not so much a person’s qualities that define their destiny, but their choices. Even those they do not make. There are people who, with their presence and choices, even while remaining in the shadows, have been crucial for the realization of my investigations, people who seem to have come out of a novel. There is a vagabond who helps me to realize the most important international scoop in the history of Rai, about the bombings in Fallujah, a taxi driver who helps me find Tanzi’s art gallery, a Swiss producer who saved me from the trap of a politician who had me spied on to block my investigation into his administration and to ruin my career, and many other incredible characters. I have come to believe that all the people I have met in my life have had a role, those who have left have done so because they completed that role. They all took a piece of me with them and taught me something, some even taught me how not to be like them.
Sigfrido Ranucci is a journalist, author, and television host. At Rai since 1990, he was first a correspondent for Tg3 segments, then for Rai News 24, where he conducted investigations on the illegal waste trade and the mafia. He found the last interview with Judge Paolo Borsellino, in September 2001 he was sent to New York to cover the attack on the Twin Towers, and then in 2004 to Sumatra for the tsunami. He has been sent to the war contexts of the Balkans and in the Middle East where he has conducted investigations on human rights violations. Since March 2017 he has hosted the television program Report (Rai3), which he inherited from creator Milena Gabanelli. He is the author of The Pact (with Nicola Biondo, Chiarelettere 2010) and the children's book Navigating Without Fear (Salani 2026). In 2024, his book The Choice was published by Bompiani, becoming a long-seller, from which he derived the theatrical show Diary of a Trapeze Artist. In February 2026, he was awarded, along with the editorial team of Report, the first prize for television journalism named after Andrea Purgatori.
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