Donato Bendicenti

Donato Bendicenti, born in Rome in 1964, has been Head of RAI’s Brussels correspondent office since 2020. He joined Tg1 in 1989 as a political and parliamentary reporter, became a special correspondent in 1999 and anchored the news programme’s main editions. Deputy Director of RAI’s Tribune e Servizi Parlamentari (Political Forums and Parliamentary Services) department from 2002, he later moved to Rai News 24, where he created and hosted “Il Transatlantico” and “La Bussola”. He has reported from more than sixty countries and covered numerous election nights live. He has taught political communication, public sphere analysis and European institutions at the Universities of Teramo, Padua, Naples Federico II and at Luiss Guido Carli.

His publications include:
- Al centro della tempesta. L’Europa tra ordine mondiale e disordine globale, Rome, Rai Libri/Luiss University Press, 2025
- Foreword to Nicoletta Pirozzi, L’Europa matura. Le crisi globali, le riforme necessarie e il formidabile futuro dell’Unione, Milan, Linkiesta, 2024, 2024
- Scintille. L’avventura dell’energia in Europa dalla scissione dell’atomo alla rivoluzione verde, Rome, Luiss University Press, 2023
- Verso casa. La lunga strada dell’Europa per ritrovare se stessa, Rome, Luiss University Press, 2022 - “Un partito e una prospettiva per il Nord Est”, in il Mulino, No. 5/2007, p. 874-881
- Con-Vincere. Piccola storia della comunicazione politica nell’era della piazza virtuale, Rome, Donzelli, 2006
- “La Lega senza secessione”, in il Mulino, No. 5/2006, p. 924-932
- “La televisione e la campagna elettorale permanente”, in il Mulino, No. 1/2006, p. 56-63