SRF: New Graubünden TV correspondent
Gianluca Galgani will become the new TV correspondent for the canton of Graubünden. He will take over in September from Isabelle Jaeger, who is moving to Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha (RTR).
48-year-old Gianluca Galgani grew up in Chur, where he completed his school education up to his A-levels. Born in Graubünden, he gained his first journalistic experience at Radio 3i in Ticino, where he worked from 1988. Another station in his radio career was the Grisons local radio station Radio Grischa. He then switched to the print sector and worked for the Bündner Zeitung (now Südostschweiz). From 1995 to 1998, he worked as a Ticino correspondent for the Swiss News Agency SDA.
Gianluca Galgani has been working for SRG SSR since 1999. He started out as a Graubünden correspondent for the Italian-speaking Swiss television station RSI. From 2002 to 2008, he worked as a correspondent for Swiss Radio and Television SRF. The Grisons native with Italian roots was first stationed in Ticino and from 2005 worked as a TV correspondent in Italy. Gianluca Galgani has been working for "Rundschau" as an author, producer and topic planner since 2010. On September 1, 2014, he will take up the post of Graubünden correspondent.
Gianluca Galgani: "Eau m'allegr da rapporter davart il chantun il pü multifari e culurieu." ("I am delighted to be able to report from the most diverse and colorful of all cantons.") Barbara Flückiger, Head of TV Domestic Correspondents: "I am delighted. Gianluca Galgani is a very experienced, competent editor and is familiar with Graubünden. As a former Italy correspondent, he also knows the life of a correspondent inside out."
