Sacha Biazzo is an award-winning investigative journalist and video reporter with over a decade's experience of uncovering organised crime, political corruption and human rights abuses across Europe and the Americas.
He currently works for Italy's leading investigative television programmes. His work has appeared in major international media outlets including the BBC, PBS, Reuters, RAI and The Intercept, as well as publications such as The Guardian and Vice.
His notable investigations include the Provolo Case, which exposed clerical sexual abuse and institutional cover-ups, and Bloody Money, an in-depth investigation that revealed the Camorra mafia's involvement in illegal waste trafficking and political corruption. He founded and led the investigative team Backstair at Fanpage.it, producing dozens of investigative video series. One such series, Black Lobby, uncovered links between neo-fascist groups and high-profile Italian politicians, including the current Prime Minister.
Sacha has received numerous awards for his pioneering work, including the DIG Award for Investigative Journalism in 2017 and a DIG Special Mention Award teh following year. In 2021, he won the European Award for Investigative and Judicial Journalism, and in 2022, he won the Forensic and Investigation Award for Investigative Journalism. The Guido Vergani Award named him Reporter of the Year three times (in 2017, 2020 and 2021), and he received the Foreign Press Association USA Scholarship in 2023.
He holds a Master of Arts in Journalism, specialising in Politics from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. In 2024, he received the Magic Seed Grant from the Brown Institute, serving as a Delacorte Fellow, media researcher and reporter at Columbia Journalism Review for the 2024–25 academic year. He currently teaches investigative video journalism on the Master of Journalism programme at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
