Luca Spinelli is a Swiss-Italian journalist and author.
He has written for all the main national newspapers, including La Repubblica, La Stampa, Corriere della Sera, Il Manifesto, Wired, Punto Informatico, and VNU Business, producing in-depth reporting, commentary, and front-page articles.
His investigations have influenced parliamentary inquiries, led to legislative changes, and triggered national strikes. Key works include “Give a Meaning to Degradation“, co-signed by Elio Veltri, Fiorello Cortiana, Mauro Bulgarelli, as well as the drafting of the associated legislative bill with G. Scorza (Italian Data Protection Authority). One of his investigations was nominated for the Ischia International Journalism Award. For several years, he was among Italy’s most-followed journalistic bloggers (source: Blogbabel). He has reported from Milan, Zurich, and Brussels, covering innovation, culture, development policies, and legislation.
He is the founder of Oscon, a non-profit legal project that promotes a standard open contract – one of the most widely used in Italy, with over 200,000 copies in circulation – and provides pro bono legal and fiscal advice. As part of his work in the legal and intellectual property fields, he also contributed to the official Italian translation of the Creative Commons 4.0 licenses.
He studied under Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda, and Carlo Freccero, and has managed communication projects for groups, law firms, and NGOs. A former guest lecturer at the University of Genoa (Visual Communication Psychology), for ten years he served as a scientific and legal consultant on accessibility and legislative frameworks for public administrations (University of Genoa, Faculty of Education Sciences). A former member of the Italian Ergonomics Society, he designed the first Italian university online portal included in the ministerial accessibility list.
After living in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany, in recent years he has led research and conservation projects on cultural, historical, and urban assets in Liguria, using an integrated approach combining OSINT and traditional sources for historical-ethnographic research.
Luca Spinelli