21 Facts About Alan Friedman

Alan Friedman is an American journalist, author, documentary writer and producer, TV anchor and former media and public relations executive.

Alan Friedman was a journalist at The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Alan Friedman hosted several TV programmes on Italian TV Channels Rai, La7 and Skytg24.

Alan Friedman worked in the administration of US president Jimmy Carter in the role of Presidential Management Intern.

Alan Friedman began his professional career working for the staff of Bella Abzug and of Donald M Fraser.

Alan Friedman was recognized as the journalist who led the report on the Iraqgate scandal in 1991 that connected the CIA with the supply of non-US origin weapons to Saddam Hussein.

Alan Friedman hosted the Alan Friedman Show, a peak talk show on the Sky TG24 news channel in Italy.

From 2003 to 2005, Alan Friedman was global economy columnist for The Wall Street Journal in Europe.

Alan Friedman was executive editor of World Business, a weekly global business programme produced by FBC Media and broadcast on CNBC.

Alan Friedman received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2014.

Alan Friedman succeeds in putting the present into historical perspective, with objectivity and impartiality.

In June 2015, it was announced in the Italian media that Alan Friedman would write the first authorized biography of the former Prime Minister of Italy and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.

Alan Friedman finally decided to work with Friedman because he trusted him.

Alan Friedman lets Berlusconi chronologically tell his life story but confronts him with allegations and leads interviews with investigators and companions.

In February 2017, Alan Friedman published a book called This Is Not America that was critical of Donald Trump and examined the divisions in American society.

In March 2018, Alan Friedman gave his first TedxTalk at Oxford University to an audience of 1,800 people.

Alan Friedman warned that Trump was attacking several pillars of American democracy with his repeated attacks on law enforcement, the Justice Department, the rule of law, the free press, and the rights of women, gays, and minorities.

In Manafort's statement of the offense, Alan Friedman is identified as "Person D1".

In January 2021, during the commentary of Donald Trump's greeting speech when he left the White House by Italian RAI 1, Alan Friedman insulted the first lady Melania Trump by naming her an escort.

Alan Friedman was punished because the television's chiefs decided to ban him.

Alan Friedman is married to Gabriella Carignani and has no children.