Giovanni Spampinato (Italian pronunciation: [d?o'vanni spampi'na?to]; 6 November 1946 – 27 October 1972) was an Italian investigative journalist for the Italian newspaper L'Ora (Translated: "The Hour") in Ragusa, Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, who brought to attention mafiaso Roberto Campria's connection to a murder in February 1972, before his own murder eight months later.