Michele Calamaio

Michele Calamaio is an Italian investigative journalist with a background in multimedia reporting. He has covered E.U. policy, climate-driven migration, and human rights violations—primarily across the Mediterranean. He worked for the Associated Press, Reuters, Euractiv Italia, and La Repubblica, where he was a Google News Initiative fellow. He is a 2025 Columbia University-Pulitzer Center Post-Grad Reporting Fellow. As a fellow, his project explored how internal cultural fractures within Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are being exploited by local traffickers to enable land grabbing, illegal cattle ranching, and widespread deforestation.