Biography

Lino Jannuzzi (born Raffaele Iannuzzi; 20 February 1928) is an Italian journalist and politician. Jannuzzi began his journalistic career at L'Espresso and in 1967, together with his colleague Eugenio Scalfari, published the investigation on the military secret services involved in the attempted coup d'état known as Piano Solo. General Giovanni de Lorenzo, the mind behind the Piano Solo, sued both Jannuzzi and Scalfari: the two journalists managed to avoid prison thanks to the parliamentary immunity offered in 1968 by the Italian Socialist Party, with which Scalfari was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and Jannuzzi to the Senate.After this first political experience, Jannuzzi returned to journalism and in 1979 was one of the founders of Radio Radicale.From 2001 to 2008, Jannuzzi held once again a seat in the Senate, elected with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, who granted him parliamentary immunity from several judicial controversies he was involved in.

He is currently a columnist for Panorama and for Il Giornale.