Marco Bardazzi

Marco Bardazzi is the co-founder of Bea - Be a Media Company, a strategic communication agency based in Milan, Italy.

Born in Prato, Tuscany, Marco is a professional journalist with 30 years of experience in the media business both in Europe and the U.S. He is a feature writer for the the Italian daily Il Foglio, covering American stories and politics.

From 2015 to 2020, Marco has been Communications Director at the Italian energy company Eni. Before joining Eni in 2015, he was Managing Editor and Digital Editor at La Stampa, a leading European newspaper based in Turin, Italy.

For almost 10 years, before joining La Stampa, Marco was 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. Marco covered the 2008 financial crisis, and he has extensively reported on the American digital, energy and manufacturing businesses.

Marco teaches a class on "Journalism innovation and new business models" at Master on Journalism, ALMED-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. 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.