Marco Bardazzi is a professional journalist, writer, and corporate communications executive with 30+ years of experience in the media business in both Europe and the U.S.
He is the co-founder and Chairman of Bea - Be a Media Company, a strategic communication agency based in Milan, Italy. As a freelance journalist, he covers American topics for the Italian newspaper Il Foglio and he is a contributor to several news organizations.
From 2015 to 2020, Marco has been Communications Director at ENI. As Executive Vice President, he oversaw corporate communications, digital strategy, data analytics and reputation management in the Italian-based energy company.
Before joining ENI in 2015, he was Managing Editor and Digital Editor at La Stampa, a leading European newspaper based in Turin. He was a key member of the team that has worked on the transformation of a traditional newspaper founded in 1867 in an integrated digital news organization. He was a co-founder of the "Europa" partnership between six leading European newspapers: La Stampa, Le Monde, El País, The Guardian, Gazeta Wyborcza and Suddeutsche Zeitung.
For almost 10 years, before joining La Stampa, he was based in New York City and Washington, DC as U.S. Correspondent for the Italian news agency ANSA. He has covered the 2000 Bush-Gore electoral race for the White House; the first international Al Qaeda trial in Manhattan; the September 11, 2001, attack on America; the war in Afghanistan; the war in Iraq; the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns. He has visited and reported on the Guantanamo detention camp at U.S. Navy Guantanamo Bay base, Cuba. He covered the 2008 financial crisis, and he has extensively reported on the American digital, energy and manufacturing businesses.
He started his career in journalism as a law and crime correspondent, covering major investigations and trials in Florence and Milan, Italy.
He has been a Board Member at Eni Gas & Luce S.p.A., AGI news agency and The Visual Agency. He was awarded the 2017 Communicator of the Year prize at Premio Ischia. As a journalist, he received the Premio di Giornalismo Saint-Vincent prize.
He has been teaching a class on "Journalism innovation and new business models" at Master on Journalism, ALMED-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He attended the University of Florence, studying Political Sciences, and he holds an Associate of Arts degree in History from American Public University. He received a Corporate Affairs Academy certificate from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
PRINCIPALI AREE DI INTERESSE SCIENTIFICO
Corporate Communication Strategy
Content Strategy
Corporate Reputation
Brand and Corporate Narrative
Media Relations
Journalism
U.S. Politics, Culture and Business
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