Born in 1995, she began working as a correspondent while still a student, first for Vice Italia and later for Rai2 and Rai3.
She has written reports from abroad, particularly from Latin American countries and the Middle East, for Il Foglio, L’Espresso, and Vanity Fair.
In 2020, the podcast “Polvere” was released, created by Cecilia Sala and Chiara Lalli for Huffington Post Italia. It was an eight-episode investigative series on the Marta Russo murder case. Within a few months, “Polvere” became one of Italy’s most-listened-to podcasts (over one million listens), and the investigation was turned into a book published by Mondadori Strade Blu: Polvere. The Marta Russo Case.
In 2021, Cecilia Sala reported for Il Foglio, live from Kabul, on Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban and the dangerous evacuations of the international contingent. And, reporting directly from Mazar-i-Sharif, she covered the protests by Afghan women for Tg1.
In 2022, she became the first Italian correspondent in Ukraine and, through Chora Media’s “Stories” podcast, she chronicles daily life under bombardment, interviewing, photographing, and recording Ukrainian citizens during the war using her smartphone—thus pioneering a new frontier in field journalism.
In 2023, he published The Fire: A Reportage on a Generation in Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan with Mondadori.
Speaks English fluently
