Giorgio Mitolo

Giorgio Mitolo

(August 6,1966 - Roma, Italy), is an Italian-Canadian TV reporter and newscaster for the Italian EDition of OMNI News, broadcasted from Toronto. OMNI Television is a Canadian multicultural channel, owned by Rogers Communications.

Biography

Born and raised in Roma, after his parents - the father, a civil lawyer, and the mother, an high-school teacher - moved from Puglia, in the early '60's. He has later become a Canadian citizen, on 2005, where he originally arrived for the first time on 1997, and moved steadily on 2001. He actually lives in Toronto (Ontario).

Career

He began to work as reporter at Persona TV, on 1987, in Roma. One year later, he was assigned to cover the position of announcer and newscaster for the Italian programs of Radio Korea International, owned by KBS - Korean Broadcasting System, in Seoul, South Korea. It was during this experience that he also wrote for the daily newspaper, Il Corriere dello Sport - Stadio. From 1991 to 2001, he has worked as reporter for RTL News, broadcasted by RTL Network radio, in Roma, and later for RAI - Radio Televisione Italiana, where he wrote and host two series of a radio program in English, based on current cultural events, broacasted by RAI International. But it was on 2001 that he moved in Toronto, where he has worked as Italian newscaster for Radio Uno, and later as an assistant producer and reporter at TLN-Telelatinofor two seasons. On 2003, he arrived at CHIN Radio & TV International, where he has worked three years as newscaster, reporter and host for a variety of radio programs, news mainly. Since 2007, he has become a reporter for OMNI News, the only one-hour Italian TV daily news present in the Northamerican continent, and broadcasted on OMNI.1, weekdays at 8pm E.T.