Paolo Messa is founder of the editorial project Formiche which includes the monthly magazines Formiche and Airpress – the last one is specialized in the aerospace and defence sector – and the online newspapers Formiche.net and Airpressonline.it. He is a board member of RAI, CONAI and a member of AIN scientific committee. Since May 2015 Paolo Messa is the Director of the Center for American Studies.
He is also an opinion maker, he take part to tv programmes and he writes for various newspapers and magazines.