the nyt on ms. capacchione
Rachel Donadio su Rosaria Capacchione per il New York Times di ieri.
A Reporter Lands a Slot on Italian Best-Seller Lists and Hit Lists
In Italy, it is called the “Saviano effect,” the intense national focus on the Camorra elicited by Roberto Saviano’s 2006 best seller, “Gomorrah,” which traced the rise of the Campania region’s violent and economically mighty clans.
But while Mr. Saviano, 29, has become a household name – appearing regularly in the Italian news media even after death threats forced him into hiding – others have spent years quietly covering – and uncovering – the same polluted terrain.
One of the most respected is Rosaria Capacchione, a veteran reporter for Il Mattino, a daily newspaper in Caserta, outside Naples, who since the mid-1980s has reported on the short lives, violent deaths and intricate finances of the members of the Camorra’s ruling families, particularly the Casalesi, as those from the town of Castel di Principe are known.