About My Career

Born in Naples in 1973, Rosario Pipolo is member of Italian Associated Press since 1996. He got a first-class degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at Federico II University of Naples and a postgraduate in Web Communication at IED of Milan. He works in Milan as Communication & Community Specialist at  Europ Assistance Italy and Editor in Chief of italian web magazine Milanodabere.it (more than 20.000 readers per day). He worked for Daily papers (Il Golfo di Napoli, Il Tempo and Il Giornale) and Television (Eutelsat, Videomusic and Tele+). He interviewed international cinema stars as Mel Gibson, Dustin Hoffman, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, Ron Howard, Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kwan. Living in Milan since 2002, he’s been working as communication adviser for traditional and online publishing. After a web site (www.pipolo.it, 2001) and a blog (www.rosariopipolo.it, 2007) in Italian, in 2008 he opened a new blog in English (www.rosariopipolo.com).

After improving English language and Anglo-American culture at Francis King School of London and Long Island University of New York, he realized different educational videos and shot short films showing at Italian film festivals. At Venice Film Festival he was President of the young panel of CinemAvvenire awarding “Anica-Flash” prize to the best “opera prima” movie (1993-1994) and “Cinema for peace” prize (2000-2001).

Press Office of social and cultural events as Telethon 2001, he was the creator of “Fellini 2000″, celebrating Italian director Federico Fellini in collaboration of Mediaset and Fellini Foundation and introducing it at the 57th edition of the Venice Film Festival (September 7,2000) Besides different scientific essays, he published a book about Nobel prize-winning Harold Pinter as screenwriter for the cinema of Joseph Losey (Naples, 1999), adopted from 2000 to 2001 at the faculty of Sociology of Naples University.

On the relationship Pinter-Losey, he lectured in presence of Pinter himself at the congress “Harold Pinter: from the theatre of menace to the cinema of ashes” (Fiesole, 2001) organized by the Italian Cinema Critics Association and University of Florence. Collaborator to the didactic activities at the Faculty of Sociology of Naples University, he worked together on research works about communication and multimedia. Fond of cinema, music and comics, he owns a private collection of over 4000 titles among books, newspapers, reviews, albums, films and comic books. In 2010 he published his first article in French on Le Corse-Matin, the daily-paper of Hersant’s group.