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Italian journalist

Bianca Berlinguer in 2008

Bianca Maria Berlinguer (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbjaŋka berliŋˈɡwɛr]; born 9 December 1959, in Rome) is an Italian journalist and former news anchor. She was the director of TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.

Biography

The first of the four children of the Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer and Letizia Laurenti (the other siblings are Maria Stella, Marco [it] and Laura, journalist of Studio Aperto), Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician Luigi Manconi.

She holds a degree in literature from Sapienza University of Rome and after a period of training at Radiocorriere TV, at the beginning of the 1980s she started working at Il Messaggero and at the same time worked at Mixer (1985) as an editor. She later joined the TG3 newsroom on a permanent basis. She presented the TG3 evening edition uninterruptedly since 1991. She also presented Primo piano, an in-depth programme on Rai 3.

On 1 October 2009 she was appointed director of the TG3. She took office on 12 October. On 24 September 2010 she won the first edition of the journalism prize "L'isola che c'è", awarded to 10 Sardinian journalists working in Rome for the printed press or the RAI. On 24 September 2011 she won the Premio Nazionale Alghero Donna di Letteratura e Giornalismo [it], journalism section. As director she continues to lead (after a gap of some months) the evening edition of TG3, and the in-depth programme Linea Notte.

She led the TG3 for the last time on 5 August 2016 and was succeeded by Luca Mazzà.

Since 7 November 2016, she has conducted the programme Cartabianca on Rai 3.

In 2019 she published her first book, a biography on her long time friend Marcella Di Folco, character actor with Federico Fellini and transgender activist died in 2010, Storia di Marcella che fu Marcello. The book was finalist at the Premio Caccuri 2020.

References

  1. "Bianca Berlinguer è il nuovo direttore del Tg3". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). 1 October 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. "Palinsesti Rai tra conferme e uscite". 27 June 2017.
  3. Interview (in Italian) Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine by Pierluigi Diaco [it] to Bianca Berlinguer at Uno Mattina on 3 September 2010
  4. "Bianca Berlinguer è il nuovo direttore del Tg3". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). 1 October 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  5. "TG3 - 30 anni - Tg3 storia 1991 Bianca Berlinguer prima conduzione". www.rai.it (in Italian). Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  6. Paolo Conti (1 October 2009). "Tg3, via libera al cambio La Berlinguer direttrice". Corriere della sera (in Italian).
  7. "Luca Mazzà : "Io capo di un Tg3 renziano? Sono autonomo, lo vedrete"". LaStampa.it (in Italian). Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  8. "Premio Letterario Caccuri 2020 I finalisti Bianca Berlinguer" (in Italian).
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