Alessio Balbi
Managing Editor, Innovation And Development
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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SeniorAlessio Balbi is an editorial and digital product leader with 20+ years in newsrooms and a decade focused on digital strategy, currently serving as Managing Editor, Innovation and Development at la Repubblica. He builds cross-functional teams that blend data, SEO and social intelligence to design new platforms and expand audiences beyond traditional channels. Previously he launched and scaled content hubs and viral experiments—founding 3nz.it, which reached 1.5M monthly users almost entirely via social distribution. Alessio led Repubblica’s digital transformation, merging print and online workflows, guiding a major redesign and record traffic during the 2018 Italian elections. He combines editorial judgement with product development experience—running design, graphics and coding squads—to turn trends into measurable revenue. Based in Rome, he brings a pragmatic, audience-first approach that often seeds innovations later adopted across the broader publishing group.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, English
Github Skills (55)
objective-c10
ios10
swift10
macos10
firebase-authentication9
authentication9
push-notifications9
object-mapping9
json-simple9
firebase-storage9
realm9
xcode9
cocoapods9
firebase9
carthage8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vidra-io/VidraCart-iOS
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:42 pushes, 26 tags in 16 days
nabbestemmia/Numero
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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