NPR's Sylvia Poggioli on the Pope and Italy's Right-Wing Tilt
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Syliva Poggioli is a legend. Forty-one years reporting from Rome and the world for NPR. She recently resigned from her role as Senior European Correspondent so she has now can be a bit more candid about what she thinks about Italy’s new rightwing government and its connections to Italy’s fascist past. Bill interviewed her in Rome.
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| 1:04.6 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again and welcome back to the Bill Press pod coming to you again this week all the way from Rome, where I'm spending most of the month of April at the Great American |
| 1:13.0 | Academy in Rome. So, you know, for us news jockeys, when we think of Rome and news from |
| 1:18.7 | Rome, we think of one person, Sylvie Pajolol, who's been covering Rome and the Pope and |
| 1:24.4 | the Italian government for NPR for over four decades. |
| 1:30.3 | We've all learned to love Sylvia not only for her traditional sign-off, |
| 1:35.3 | from Rome, this is Sylvia Pajololi, but for the brilliance and the clarity and the trustworthiness |
| 1:42.3 | and the power of her reporting. A couple of weeks ago, |
| 1:45.6 | after 51 years as a journalist and 41 years reporting for NBR, Sylvie decided to hang up her |
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