Alessio Perrone

Freelance journalist in Milan, Italy

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I’m a freelance writer, reporter, and occasional photographer.

After spending a few years abroad, including in the U.K. (a lot), Germany, Brazil and China, I’m currently based in Milan, Italy, where I was born in a family of Southern Italian migrants.

You’ll often find me writing about the people living inside news stories in Northern Italy and around the Alps and the Mediterranean. As a reader, I’m drawn to rites of passage stories of people who don’t often appear in the media—and these are the kinds of stories I would like to write more often.

I hold a degree in Philosophy from the University of Milan and a Master’s in Journalism from Cardiff University. I’ve studied portrait photography and have a certificate in Narrative Non Fiction from City University London. My work has appeared in:

Radio and TV appearances

  • Interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review: “How the coronavirus could limit shoe-leather reporting” (March 2020)
  • Beyond 100 Days, BBC News UK and BBC World News – on the coronavirus epidemic in Italy (10 March 2020)
  • Deutsche Welle – on the coronavirus epidemic in Italy (multiple times in March 2020)
  • BBC Radio Foyle – on an Italian village’s fake sell-off (May 2019)
  • BBC World Service – on the conditions of refugees in Wales (Jan 2016)
  • Islam Channel – on the conditions of refugees in Wales (Jan 2016)

Talks

  • Panelist at the 2022 International Journalism Festival

Awards, grants, fellowships

  • 2022 George Weidenfeld fellow at Die Zeit in Hamburg, Germany – International Journalists Program (IJP)
  • Two-time recipient of the Investigation Support Grant, in 2020 and 2021 – Investigative Journalism for EU consortium (IJ4EU)
  • One-time recipient of European Journalism Center (EJC) grants in 2020
  • 2016 outstanding academic achievement award – Cardiff University

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