Bianca Maria Berlinguer (; born 9 December 1959 in

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) is an Italian journalist and former news anchor. She was the director of

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from October 2009 to August 2016.

Biography

The first of the four children of the

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leader

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and Letizia Laurenti (the other siblings are Maria Stella, and Laura, journalist of ''

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''), Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician

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. She holds a degree in literature from

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and after a period of training at ''

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'', at the beginning of the 1980s she started working at ''

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'' and at the same time worked at ''Mixer'' (1985) as an editor. She later joined the

newsroom on a permanent basis. She presented the TG3 evening edition uninterruptedly since 1991. She also presented ''Primo piano'', an in-depth programme on

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. 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

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. On 24 September 2011 she won the , 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

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, character actor with

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and transgender activist died in 2010, ''Storia di Marcella che fu Marcello''. The book was finalist at the Premio Caccuri 2020.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berlinguer, Bianca 1959 births 20th-century Italian women journalists 21st-century Italian women journalists Living people Journalists from Rome Italian people of Sardinian descent Italian people of Catalan descent