Journalist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Repubblica, author and radio and television host. Founder of Repubblica.it and Kataweb. Artistic director of the Medimex and Collisioni festivals.

He taught New Media Theory and Technique and Analysis of musical languages at the Sapienza University in Rome, Music Journalism at the Master Critical Journalism at the National Academy of Dramatic Art Silvio D’Amico and collaborates with the Saint Louis Club House.

He has published some thirty books on music and new technologies, published in Italy, England, France, Germany, the USA, Poland and the Netherlands.