Departures of note

Stefano Marcelli was an Italian journalist who began his career in 1975 at age 20 at the Florentine newspaper Paese Sera. He founded and directed the cultural magazine Reeds and the Teleregione news program before joining Rai, where he became head editor of the Tuscan headquarters and later a special correspondent.

Throughout his career, Marcelli covered major national and international events including the P2 scandal, mafia activities, terrorism, the Moby Prince disaster, the Yugoslav war, the rise of integralism in Algeria, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He investigated toxic waste trafficking in Africa, during which he was kidnapped in Nigeria. He also reported on German neo-Nazis, Croatian Ustasha, and tracked Al Qaeda.

Marcelli was remembered by colleagues for his frank and direct character, typical of newsrooms in the 1980s and 1990s. He died at age 71, with tributes paid by the Tuscan Press Association, the Tuscan Journalists Order, and Rai Toscana.