Marco Lupis
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Marco Lupis Macedonio Palermo di Santa Margherita (Rome, Italy, 1960), is an Italian journalist and photojournalist, working for more than 5 years as a foreign correspondent from the Far East, based in Hong Kong. He works for the most popular Italian magazines and newspapers, Panorama, Il Tempo, Corriere della Sera, L'Espresso, la Repubblica, and for the Italian State Television RAI (broadcasted in Mixer and Format, and in the main news Tg2 e Tg3). He also works for the Italian all-news channel, Rainews24). He is also a correspondent for the Telegiornale della Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana, RTSI.
With more than 20 years and 700 articles, he has described most of the historical changes in the last decades, mainly focusing on the Far East and Latin America.
As a photojournalist, he has mainly published his pictures in the Italian weekly magazines Sette, Io Donna (with the Corriere della Sera), and il Venerdì and D La Repubblica delle Donne with La Repubblica.
During his travels he has visited more than 140 countries, including Antarctica while embedded with a Russian scientific expedition in 2001.
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[edit] Special Correspondent from Asia and Latin America
Several of Marco Lupis's reportages have been translated and published in major international newspapers, like El Pais in Spain, El Clarin in Argentina and in the Washington Post in the US. [1]
In 1993, as special correspondent for Sette (the Corriere della Sera weekly magazine), Lupis was the first Italian journalist to interview the Mexican revolutionary leader sub-comandante Marcos in the Mexican jungle of Chiapas.
He has worked several times in the war zone, corresponding from the last decade's most important conflicts, like the Kosovo War. He has written about the massacres following the declaration of independence in East Timor; also the USA war activity on board the American aircraft carrier, Uss Roosevelt during the Kosovo War, the turnover of the ex-colonies of Hong Kong and Macao to China, and the dramatic SARS epidemic in China[2].
In his articles, Lupis frequently writes about human rights violations in Asia, from the death camps in North Korea, to the Chinese Laogai, to the Chinese atrocities in Tibet, interviewing many dissidents like Aung San Suu Kyi in the Myanmar [3].
Now Marco Lupis works and lives between Italy and Hong Kong.
[edit] Books
- SARS Diario dall'emergenza - contenuto in AA.VV., SARS. Manuale di informazione e autodifesa, Roma, 2003, ISBN 88-8112-442-4
- Il Circo - Introduzione al volume, Il Circo, Bolzano, 1988
- Cesare Baglione attivo a Peschiera Borromeo - in AA.VV, Sibrium - Collana di Studi e Documentazione dei Musei Civici di Varese, vol. XVIII, 1985-86, Varese, ISSN 0559-9628
- L'attività di Giovanni Ruggeri alla villa Griffoni-Sant'Angelo a Castel Gabbiano - in AA. VV. Insula Fulcheria - Rassegna di studi e documentazioni di crema e del Cremasco. vol. XVI, dicembre 1986, Crema
- Una committenza farnesiana in Lombardia: le decorazioni tardo-cinquecentesche del castello di Peschiera Borromeo, in Quaderni (I) di Gradoli. Bollettino del Centro di Studi e Ricerche sul territorio Farnesiano, fasc. 6., Gradoli, 1986
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- An article from La Repubblica newspaper.
- An article from the Corriere della Sera newspaper
- An article from L'Espresso newsmagazine
- A reportage from Vietnam
- A reportage from the Philippines
- A reportage from Venezuela
- A reportage from Japan
- From the Tg2 of 18 of may, 2003.
- Some interviews for the Italian State Radio Broadcasting
