ROME - The journalist and blogger Rita Di Giovacchino, best know for her incisive stories of the most notorious investigations and trials in Italy, has died aged 74, from complications relating to Covid-19.

  She began her journalistic career at ANSA, then moved to Il Messaggero, where she spent 25 years, and finally Il Fatto Quotidiano, all the while following with a close eye the operations of the mafia and political corruption, rife in Italy. Her most notable writing was perhaps surrounding the 1986-1992 Maxi trial in Palermo, the kidnap and murder of Aldo Moro in 1978, and mafia’s murders of magistrates Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone.

  The journalist Antonio Padellaro wrote that her signature would always “guarantee a dry chronicle of the facts, well written, full of details that others didn’t have.”

  Many of the injustices Di Giovacchino reported on she also turned into books, including ‘Scoop Mortale’, about the life of Mino Pecorelli, a journalist shot dead in 1979, and ‘The Black Book of the First Republic’, which details the “intertwining of the visible and invisible powers that have characterised and conditioned decades of national political life,” writes Padellaro.

  Rita Di Giovacchino was born on Feb. 19, 1947, in Bergamo and died May 3, 2021, in Rome.