Bianca Berlinguer


Bianca Maria Berlinguer is an Italian journalist. She was the director of TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.

Biography

The first of the four children of the Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer and Letizia Laurenti, Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician Luigi Manconi.
She holds a degree in literature, and after a period of training at Radiocorriere TV, at the beginning of the 1980s she started working at Il Messaggero and at the same time worked at Mixer as an editor. She later joined the TG3 newsroom on a permanent basis. She presented the TG3 evening edition uninterruptedly since 1991. She also presented Primo piano, an in-depth programme on Rai 3.
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 RAI - Radiotelevisione italiana. On 24 September 2011 she won the, journalism section. As director she continues to lead 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.