Giacomo’s work focuses on politics of borders and identity, European public policies and digital surveillance. He has been reporting extensively from the Sahel and West Africa, with a particular attention to migration and counter terrorism in Niger. 

His investigations, reports and long reads were featured in The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Republik, Foreign Policy, De Groene Amsterdammer, Le Monde, Médiapart, De Correspondent, El Diario, Balkan Insight, Solomon, Irpi Media, Internazionale, La Repubblica, L’Espresso. 

He was awarded the Media Migration Award (2017), the True Story Award (2019) and the Evens Foundation Journalism Prize for Geopolitics (2022). He believes in collaborations and strives to identify new narratives and angles to tell stories that matter.