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Monday/Wednesday • 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday/Thursday • 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
MMC 2605 Social Justice Thought & The Media • Mon. Wed. — 12:20 p.m. - 1:35 p.m.
MMC 2605 Social Justice Thought & The Media • Tu. Th. — 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Ottavia Spaggiari is an award-winning investigative journalist and long-form writer.
Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, Al Jazeera, The New Humanitarian
and others.
Her long-form on human traffickers' impunity in Italy was shortlisted for the 2021
European Press Prize in the "distinguished reporting" category. The rights for this
piece have also been recently optioned for screen adaptation.
In 2023 the piece she co-wrote about the brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in
Belarus after the 2020 elections received the Amnesty Media Award for Best Feature.
More recently, her investigation into the exploitation of undocumented migrants in
the Langhe wine country sparked an international debate over workers' rights in the
Barolo vineyards and led to an agreement between winemakers and local institutions
to protect workers' rights.
Ottavia has been an investigative fellow at Columbia Journalism School’s Global Migration
Project and a three-time recipient of the Investigative Journalism for Europe grant.
She has worked in London for CNN International and in Milan for Vita, the Italian
leading news website and magazine focusing on social issues.
From development aid to migration issues, from gender-based violence to police brutality,
Ottavia has covered a wide range of topics, reporting from several European Countries,
sub-Saharan Africa and the US.
She received her Master of Arts in Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism where she was a San Paolo fellow. She's been a guest
lecturer at Columbia Journalism School and at La Sapienza University in Rome. She's
also taught journalism at St. Joseph's University and at the City College of New York.
She speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish.
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Investigative Journalism
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Narrative Journalism
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Long Form Journalism
- University of Bologna •
M.A. in Politics and Global Affairs - University of Bologna •
M.A. Film and Media Studies - University of Bologna •
B.A. Film Studies
- Endowed Chair • 2025 - Present
Florida A&M University (FAMU), Tallahassee, FL
- MMC 2605 Social Justice Thought & The Media