Alessia Cerantola is an Italian journalist and the Editorial director of Investigate Europe.
Before joining Investigate Europe. Alessia worked for four years as editorial coordinator and staff reporter focused on Big Tobacco with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). She began her career working with the magazine Internazionale, bringing Japanese news to an Italian audience. She reported from Japan for fifteen years for Italian publications like Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Fatto Quotidiano and with radio features for the BBC World Service. The Japan’s national broadcaster, NHK, featured Alessia in a two-part documentary about her reporting on the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. She worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation.
Back in Rome, she worked with La7 TV news and for Report, the flagship investigative program of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI. For her investigation on counterfeit Parma ham she was featured in Stanley Tucci’s food show for CNN, Searching for Italy. She has reported from Europe and Asia for publications including The Intercept, the Guardian, The Atlantic and The Japan Times. In 2013, she spent three months on a solo road trip around the United States funded by a fellowship from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
She co-founded the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) and with her colleagues she investigated a serial rapist. The story later made into a serialised podcast for Verified, and a documentary series for Sky TV. In 2012, she won the Press Freedom Award, granted by UNESCO and Reporters Without Borders - Austria, for a piece she wrote exposing the economic exploitation of Italian freelance journalists. Alessia has Master degrees in Oriental Studies, Journalism and Corporate Finance.
