From 1983 to 1995 Suttora worked for the weekly newsmagazine "L'Europeo" as a writer, special correspondent, and foreign desk editor. He covered the Iran–Iraq War, the 1988 first Palestinian Intifada, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the 1990 Gulf War, the 1991 Moscow coup ousting Mikhail Gorbachev, the 1992–95 Yugoslav Wars.