Gomez Peter

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Peter Gomez

Journalist and television author

Journalist, essayist, television presenter, television author, columnist and blogger naturalized Italian American, he is the founder, and since September 23, 2009 director of the online version, of Il Fatto Quotidiano.
After moving to Milan in 1986, he joined Il Giornale and then followed the founder Indro Montanelli to La Voce throughout the thirteen months of that newspaper’s life (1994-1995). From 1996 to 2009 he was a correspondent for L’Espresso, where he dealt with all the most important cases of political and judicial corruption, as well as the mafia, and at the same time also a collaborator of MicroMega. He follows all the main Italian political scandals, including: Tangentopoli, the mafia massacres of 1992-93, the relations between Silvio Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra, the subject of many of his investigative books. Author of dozens of scoops and about fifteen essays, he moved on to judicial reporting to investigative journalism. His essays, many of which were written together with Marco Travaglio, are on the best-seller lists.
In 2009, after leaving L’Espresso, he was one of the founders of Il Fatto Quotidiano, of which he has directed the online version since the beginning, also keeping his own blog.
Television pundit for Rai and LA7, since October 2017 he has hosted the program La confessione on channel Nove, in which he interviews famous people. In September 2019 he also presented two television investigations on the world of drugs and pornography, entitled Enjoy. In the 2019-2020 season he conducts, again on Nove, the daily in-depth and current affairs column Sono le venti. From 29 March 2025 he hosts in the access prime time of Rai 3 An alien in his homeland. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2025 holding a Lectio magistralis on the issue of press freedom.