Virman Cusenza

Virman Cusenza, a journalist and former editor of Il Messaggero and Il Mattino di Napoli, is the Head of Acea Communication & Media Relations since June 2023.

From September 2020 to May 2023, Virman Cusenza was current affairs consultant with the Fremantle television and film production group, for which he directed major documentaries. From January to June 2023 he was a columnist with the Italian weekly news magazine L’Espresso, where he managed the column “Il Palazzometro”.

On 10 December 2012 he was appointed as editor of Il Messaggero. During his almost eight years as director of the Roman daily, he distinguished himself for the battles conducted as ombudsman for the remediation of the city of Rome.

In January 2008 he was appointed deputy editor of Il Mattino di Napoli, taking over the management of the same from 5 August 2009.

He spent from 1998 to 2007 with Il Messaggero as a columnist and head of the political department. In autumn 2007 he was sent to London as a guest journalist of the newspaper The Independent to study its editorial model, at the same time carrying on the role of reporter and correspondent for Il Messaggero.

In 1987 he was hired at Indro Montanelli’s Il Giornale, to deal with judicial and internal political news. He followed the main investigations into the mafia and the Tangentopoli season. In 1992 he joined the Roman editorial staff as a parliamentary reported.

He began working in journalism in 1984, collaborating with Il Giornale di Sicilia and, later, with Pippo Fava’s weekly I Siciliani.

During his career he received the Ischia international journalism sward (2010), the Guido Carli award (2014), the Riviera dei marmi award (2018) and the Biagio Agnes award (2015 and 2022). In January 2022 he wrote the investigation essay “Gamblers (Giocatori d’azzardo). The story of Enzo Paroli, the anti-fascist who saved Mussolini’s journalist”, published by Mondadori. In June 2022 he received the Biagio Agnes journalist-writer award and was finalist, in Treviso, for the Giovanni Comisso national prize for literature.

In 2014 he was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Giorgio Napolitano.

Virman Cusenza holds a degree in Modern Literature from Palermo University.