Lucia Annunziata
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Lucia Annunziata (Sarno, 8 August 1950) is an Italian journalist.
Career[]
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Born in Sarno (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 correspondent from the United States first for Il Manifesto, then for La Repubblica. In 1993 she won an International Fellowship from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She then went on to work for the Corriere della Sera and finally for RAI (Italy's national public ) in 1995 (with the "Linea Tre" program on Rai Tre); in August 1996 she became executive editor of the , although she resigned from the job at the end of November. In 2000, she became executive editor of the newborn news agency (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 in 1994). In 2005–2006, she hosted the interview program In 1/2 h for Rai Tre, in which she famously interviewed then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. 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 [1] Huffingtonpost Italy between 2012 and 2020. As of September 2020, she is a member of the Italian Aspen Institute.[2]
The Berlusconi interview[]
On 12 March 2006, in the middle of the electoral campaign 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 1/2 h (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.[citation needed]
The political control board of RAI accused Annunziata of violating the , 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.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Huffingtonpost Italy
- ^ executive Committee, aspeninstitute.it/
External links[]
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- Column on The Washington Post website (with photograph)[dead link]
- Video of the Berlusconi interview from "In 1/2h" (in Italian)
- Nieman Fellows, Class of 1993
- 1950 births
- Living people
- People from the Province of Salerno
- Italian television journalists
- Rai (broadcaster) people