Biography

Deaglio was born in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, where he graduated in medicine (June 1971) and worked in the Mauriziano Hospital.

In the mid-1970s, he started his journalist career for the communist newspaper Lotta continua

Lotta Continua

Lotta Continua was a far left extra-parliamentary organization in Italy. It was founded in autumn 1969 by a split in the student-worker movement of Turin, which had started militant activity at the universities and factories such as Fiat...

, of which he was director from 1977 to 1982. Later he worked for numerous national newspapers and magazine, such as La Stampa

La Stampa

La Stampa is one of the best-known, most influential and most widely sold Italian daily newspapers. Published in Turin, it is distributed in Italy and other European nations. The current owner is the Fiat Group.-History:...

, Il Manifesto

Il Manifesto

il manifesto is an Italian newspaper. While it calls itself communist, it is not connected to any political party. It was founded as a monthly review in 1969 by a collective of left-wing journalists engaged in the wave of critical thought and activity on the Italian left in that period. Prominent...

, Panorama, Epoca

Época

Época is a Brazilian weekly news and analysis magazine. Since its inception in 1998, it has become one of the country's most widely read magazines...

 and l'Unità

L'Unità

l'Unità is an Italian left-wing newspaper, originally founded as official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party.-History:L'Unità was founded by Antonio Gramsci on 12 February 1924, as the newspaper of workers and peasants, the official newspaper of Italian Communist Party : it was printed in...

 and was director of Reporter in 1985-1986.

From the later 1980s he worked for the TV journalist show Mixer, devoting in particular to Sicilian mafia and to foreign events. In the 1990s he hosted several journalist shows in Rai Tre

Rai Tre

Rai 3 is part of RAI, the Italian government broadcasting agency, which owns other channels, such as Rai 1 and Rai 2 . Rai 3 first started transmissions on December 15, 1979. In the eighties it was under the predominant political influence of the Italian Communist Party...

, such as Milano, Italia (January–June 1994), Ragazzi del '99 (1999), Così va il mondo, Vento del Nord and L'Elmo di Scipio. From 1997 to 2008 he was director of the weekly Diario

Diario (magazine)

Diario was an Italian magazine, founded on 23 October 1996 by Enrico Deaglio, Luca Formenton and Amato Mattia as a weekly linked to the daily newspaper l'Unità...

.

In 2006 his documentary Uccidete la democrazia!, supposing cheats in the electronic vote for the 2006 Italian general elections in favour of Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

's party, House of Freedoms

House of Freedoms

The House of Freedoms , was a major Italian centre-right political and electoral alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi. It was initially composed of several political parties:*Forza Italia *National Alliance...

, raised controversies. Later his hypothesis was discarded by an official recount of the schedes by the Italian Parliament.

His brother, Mario Deaglio, it's an economist at the University of Turin.