Lucia Annunziata (

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, 8 August 1950) is an Italian journalist.

Career

Born in

(in the Salerno province), at the age of 13 she moved to Salerno, where she attended high school and university, obtaining a degree in History and Philosophy. In 1979 she became a professional journalist, working as a

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from the United States first for Il Manifesto, then for

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. In 1993 she won an International Fellowship from the

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. She then went on to work for the

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and finally for RAI (Italy's national public broadcasting company) in 1995 (with the "Linea Tre" program on Rai Tre); in August 1996 she became executive editor of the TG 3, although she resigned from the job at the end of November. In 2000, she became executive editor of the newborn news agency ApBiscom (subsequently renamed APCOM). She became President of RAI on 13 March 2003 and resigned on 4 May 2004; she was the second woman President of RAI (after

Letizia Moratti Letizia Maria Moratti (née Brichetto Arnaboldi; Milan, 26 November 1949) is an Italian businesswoman and politician. She was president of RAI (1994–1996), minister of Education, University and Research (2001–2006), mayor of Milan (2006– ...

in 1994). In 2005–2006, she hosted the interview program ''

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'' for Rai Tre, in which she famously interviewed then Prime Minister

Silvio 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 f ...

. Currently, she works as columnist for La Stampa and as a panelist for The Washington Post. She received the ''America Award'' of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2014. She's been Chief Editor of Huffingtonpost Italy between 2012 and 2020. As of September 2020, she is a member of the Italian

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The Berlusconi interview

On 12 March 2006, in the middle of the

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for the Italian general election, Lucia Annunziata interviewed the then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was running for a second term, on her television program ''

'' (In half an hour). During the interview, she asked pressing questions about the works of Berlusconi's administration, often interrupting the Prime Minister's statements, which annoyed him to the point that he stood up and left the room halfway through the program, thus cutting short the interview. The political control board of RAI accused Annunziata of violating the Par Condicio, since that law states the interviewer should keep to a neutral stance during political interviews. She resigned from her job as executive editor of RAI in protest for Berlusconi's conflict of interest.

References

External links

Column on The Washington Post website (with photograph)

Video of the Berlusconi interview
from "In 1/2h" (in Italian)
Nieman Fellows, Class of 1993
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