Wolfgang Achtner, nato e cresciuto a New York, da molti anni residente a Roma, è un giornalista freelance e regista di documentari. Dall'Italia ha lavorato per la ABC News, CNN, Press TV, The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. Wolfgang Achtner, a New Yorker, lives in Rome. He is a correspondent, television producer, documentary filmmaker, author and journalism educator. Television experience is the result of almost thirty years work for some of the most important American and foreign television networks, including eight years as freelance correspondent for CNN and eleven years as reporter/producer for ABC News. For several years he worked as a correspondent from Italy for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday and he contributed articles to Italian periodicals, including La Repubblica, Il Mondo, Mondo Economico, Il Manifesto, Reporter.