Bianca Berlinguer

Bianca Maria Berlinguer (born 9 December 1959 in Rome) is an Italian journalist. She was the director of TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.

Bianca Berlinguer in 2008

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 and Laura, journalist of Studio Aperto), Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician Luigi Manconi.[1]

She holds a degree in literature, and after a period of training at Radiocorriere TV,[2] at the beginning of the 1980s she started working at Il Messaggero and at the same time worked at Mixer (1985) as an editor.[3] She later joined the TG3 newsroom on a permanent basis. She presented the TG3 evening edition uninterruptedly since 1991.[4] She also presented Primo piano, an in-depth programme on Rai 3.

On 1 October 2009 she was appointed director of the TG3.[5] 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 - Radiotelevisione italiana. On 24 September 2011 she won the Premio Nazionale Alghero Donna di Letteratura e Giornalismo, 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.[6]

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

References
  1. "Bianca Berlinguer è il nuovo direttore del Tg3". Il sole 24 ore. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. Interview Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine by Pierluigi Diaco to Bianca Berlinguer at Uno Mattina on 3 September 2010
  3. "Bianca Berlinguer è il nuovo direttore del Tg3". Il sole 24 ore. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  4. "TG3 - 30 anni - Tg3 storia 1991 Bianca Belinguer prima conduzione". www.rai.it. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  5. Paolo Conti (1 October 2009). "Tg3, via libera al cambio La Berlinguer direttrice". Corriere della sera.
  6. "Luca Mazzà : "Io capo di un Tg3 renziano? Sono autonomo, lo vedrete"". LaStampa.it. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
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