AWARD IN JOURNALISM; Winner Chosen for the First Seymour Berkson Grant
Date: 25 August 1961
1st S Berkson Foreign Assignment Grant to D H Schoelkopf (Minneapolis Tribune); he gets 6-mo assignment on UPI staff
Sigfrido Ranucci (born 24 August 1961) is an Italian journalist. He is best known for directing the documentary film Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre.
Ranucci hosts since 2017 the well-known Italian investigative TV series Report on public televion RAI 3. The political magazine is according to Euronews "one of the few investigative programmes on Italian television and regularly breaks news involving prominent Italian politicians, business leaders and public figure."
In 2006 Ranucci became co-author of the Report, with Milena Gabanelli. In 2009 he published The story: from Ciancimino to Dell'Utri, the Stato-mafia trattativa nel racconto inedito di un infiltrato.
Ranucci lives in the Roman suburb of Campo Ascolano close to the Mediterranean coast. In 2024 Ranucci found two bullets in front of his house, apparently left there as a threat. On the night of October 16, 2025, unknown perpetrators bombed Sigfrido Ranucci's car. Residents reported two consecutive, extremely loud explosions. The car was parked in front of Ranucci's house and burned completely. His daughter's car, which was parked next to it, was also destroyed. A Report editor colleague of Ranucci declared, that "the force of the explosion was so strong that it could have been fatal if someone had been passing by at that time". Authorities and the media believe it was a mafia attack.
The trade union Usigrai stated few hours after the attack, that in the month prior to the bombing they had denounced Rai for reducing the airtime available to Report and particularly the climate of hatred and intolerance towards the editorial staff's investigations. "In prime time on Rai1, the second highest office of the state even went so far as to describe Report staff as 'serial slanderers,' without either the presenter or the company distancing themselves. A hate campaign against investigative journalism that must end."
Sigfrido Ranucci is married to Marina and has three children; he is Roman Catholic.
Lue lisää...24. elokuuta 1961 oli torstaina tähtimerkin ♍ alla. Se oli 235 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli John F. Kennedy.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 64 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli sunnuntaina 24. elokuuta 2025, 271 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on maanantaina 24. elokuuta 2026, 93 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 23 647 päivää tai noin 567 528 tuntia tai noin 34 051 704 minuuttia tai noin 2 043 102 240 sekuntia.
Date: 25 August 1961
1st S Berkson Foreign Assignment Grant to D H Schoelkopf (Minneapolis Tribune); he gets 6-mo assignment on UPI staff
Date: 24 August 1961
By W. GRANGER BLAIR Special to The New York Times
W. BLAIR
25 bombs explode, France, hurting 4; 27 bombs explode, Algeria, hurting 4; Right-Wing extremists linked; Paris homes of Min Jeanneney, Amb Boegner, newsman P Brisson and F Sagan attacked
Date: 25 August 1961
Fed ct enjoins picketing of Free Press; paper resumes; FMCS sets more talks as Miami Herald
Date: 25 August 1961
Concrete sculpture relating ancient African legend, modern version of African folk art form, made by Brit and Nigerian sculptors for Chase Manhattan Bank branch, Lagos, Nigeria; illus
Date: 24 August 1961
UNESCO information media survey shows nearly 70% of world has no knowledge of events at home or abroad; urges concerted action by govts and internatl orgns
Date: 24 August 1961
Special to The New York Times
Govt ousts Moscow Izvestia newsman for disparaging W Ger pub figures
Date: 25 August 1961
Special to The New York Times
Information center, NYC, for foreign newsmen to open; staffed and operated by USIA; planned by USIA, State Dept and White House; to have special 'voice line' from Washington; E G Wiener to head it; P Salinger comments
Date: 25 August 1961
By ANTHONY LEWIS Special to The New York Times
Anthony Special
Sir J Epstein widow presents over 200 original plaster models by him; announcement made by B Rose who suggested gift; some works listed; illus
Date: 25 August 1961
By VAL ADAMS
Val ADAMS
Date: 25 August 1961
AIA com urges rev of other sites for Indiana deep water port; Burns Ditch site disputed by advocates of proposed Indiana Dunes natl monument