Daniela Hamaui (born 21 November 1954) is an Italian journalist and was the editor of the

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L'Espresso ''L'Espresso'' () is an Italian weekly news magazine. It is one of the two most prominent Italian weeklies; the other is ''Panorama''. Since 2022 it has been published by BFC Media. History and profile One of Italy's foremost newsmagazines, ''l ...

'' from 2002 to 2010. Prior to her stint at ''L'espresso'', she was the founding editor of the magazine '' D – la Repubblica delle donne'', published since 1996 with the newspaper ''

La Repubblica ''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo ...

''. Hamaui has voiced concerns about legislation on telecommunications introduced by the

Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...

administration and proposed a provision that would temporarily bar the owners of TV stations (including Berlusconi) from buying up print media groups. Currently she serves as editorial director of the periodicals of ''

'', and has the editorial supervision of various monthlies.

Biography

Hamaui was born in

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, Egypt. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in literature (with specialization in teaching) at Università Statale di Milano in 1978, and then studied at the Institute for Journalism Training in

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. She then began to write for ''La Repubblica'', ''

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'' and the cultural pages of ''

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''. In 1995 she became editor of the monthly '' CentoCose'' published by

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. On 15 July 2010 it was announced that Hamaui would serve as editorial director of the magazine ''La Repubblica''. She was replaced by Bruno Manfellotto as the editor-in-chief of ''L'Espresso''.

References

External links

''L'espresso'' masthead

''RaiNews 24'' announcement of Daniela Hamaui's appointment

Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso announcement

Hamaui's position on the Berlusconi legislation
1954 births Italian magazine editors Italian women editors Living people Journalists from Milan University of Milan alumni {{Italy-journalist-stub