Zucconi is currently director of the online edition of the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica", and he serves as the US correspondent for the same newspaper. He has previously been a reporter for the Italian daily newspaper "Corriere della Sera" from Moscow, and for "La Stampa" from Brussels and Tokyo. Zucconi is also known for several appearances on TV shows as an editorialist. Since summer 2007, he has been teaching graduate classes on Italian history and journalism at Middlebury College in Vermont.