Isabelle AdrianiW
Isabelle Adriani

Federica Federici, better known by her stage name Isabelle Adriani, is an Italian actress, producer, journalist, singer and author.

Aminata AidaraW
Aminata Aidara

Aminata Aidara is an Italian-Senegalese journalist, short story writer and novelist.

Gabriella AmbrosioW
Gabriella Ambrosio

Gabriella Ambrosio is an Italian writer, journalist, academic, and advertising creative director. Her essays Siamo Quel che Diciamo and Le Nuove Terre della Pubblicita are required advertising texts in several universities in Italy. Her first novel, Prima di Lasciarsi, related to a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, has been translated into several languages including Hebrew and Arabic.

Ernesta Bittanti BattistiW
Ernesta Bittanti Battisti

Ernesta Bittanti Battisti was an Italian journalist and educator.

Bianca BerlinguerW
Bianca Berlinguer

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

Simona BonaféW
Simona Bonafé

Simona Bonafé is an Italian politician and journalist who currently serves as a member of the European Parliament.

Irene BrinW
Irene Brin

Irene Brin was an Italian fashion journalist, writer and art dealer.

Margherita CarosioW
Margherita Carosio

Margherita Carosio was an Italian operatic soprano. Her voice is preserved in many Parlophone and Ultraphon recordings made before World War II, as well as a memorable series made for HMV in London, beginning in 1946. She was still singing leading roles in her early sixties and was considered one of the leading bel canto sopranos of her day. She was born and died in Genoa.

Luciana CastellinaW
Luciana Castellina

Luciana Castellina is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist.

Alba de Céspedes y BertiniW
Alba de Céspedes y Bertini

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.

Silvia Costa (politician)W
Silvia Costa (politician)

Silvia Costa is an Italian journalist and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019.

Oriana FallaciW
Oriana Fallaci

Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Milena GabanelliW
Milena Gabanelli

Milena Gabanelli is an Italian journalist and television host, better known in Italy for being the author and anchorwoman in the independent investigative journalism Television program Report. The program is currently broadcast by the Italian public TV channel Rai 3.

Ada GobettiW
Ada Gobetti

Ada Gobetti (1902–1968) was an Italian teacher, journalist and anti-fascist leader. She was born Ada Prospero and later remarried to become Ada Marchesini.

Lilli GruberW
Lilli Gruber

Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber is an Italian journalist and former politician.

Francine LacquaW
Francine Lacqua

Francine Lacqua is an Italian journalist, television anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. She is fluent in English, Italian and French.

Maria Antonietta MacciocchiW
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi

Maria Antonietta Macciocchi was an Italian journalist, writer, feminist and politician, elected to the Italian Parliament in 1968 as an Italian Communist Party candidate and to the European Parliament in 1979 as candidate of the Radical Party.

Dacia MarainiW
Dacia Maraini

Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.

Carla Mazzuca PoggioliniW
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini

Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini is a professional journalist and Italian politician who served in both chambers of the Italian Parliament. She is the wife of Danilo Poggiolini.

Milena MilaniW
Milena Milani

Milena Milani (1917–2013) was an Italian writer, journalist, and artist.

Loretta NapoleoniW
Loretta Napoleoni

Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism and connected topics, both finance- and security-related.

Anna PiaggiW
Anna Piaggi

Anna Maria Piaggi was an Italian fashion writer and style icon. She was known for her bright blue hair, excessive make-up, which verged on clown-ish, and her sense of style that mixed vintage and contemporary fashion.

Fernanda PivanoW
Fernanda Pivano

Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.

Valentina De PoliW
Valentina De Poli

Valentina De Poli is an Italian journalist and editor.

Eugenia RomanelliW
Eugenia Romanelli

Eugenia Romanelli is an Italian author and journalist.

Lalla RomanoW
Lalla Romano

Graziella "Lalla" Romano was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.

Lea SchiaviW
Lea Schiavi

Lea Schiavi, also known as Lea Schiavi Burdett,, an Italian dissident journalist writing for left-wing journals in opposition to the Italian fascist government led by Benito Mussolini. Her husband Winston Burdett believed Schiavi was assassinated by either the Russians, Italian anti-fascists, or Persians while traveling through Iran.

Matilde SeraoW
Matilde Serao

Matilde Serao was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the first woman called to edit an Italian newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma and later Il Giorno. Serao was also the co-founder and editor of the newspaper Il Mattino, and the author of several novels. She never won the Nobel Prize in Literature despite being nominated on six occasions.

Giuliana SgrenaW
Giuliana Sgrena

Giuliana Sgrena is an Italian journalist who works for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on 4 February 2005. After her release on 4 March, Sgrena and the two Italian intelligence officers who had helped secure her release came under fire from U.S. forces while on their way to Baghdad International Airport. Nicola Calipari, a major general in the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service was killed, and Sgrena and one other officer were wounded in the incident. The event caused an international outcry.

Nadia ToffaW
Nadia Toffa

Nadia Toffa was an Italian journalist and television presenter for satirical current affairs programme Le Iene who gained attention in 2017 for a series of stories about the environmental impacts of alleged nuclear testing at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.

Maria Antonietta TorrianiW
Maria Antonietta Torriani

Maria Antonietta Torriani was an Italian journalist and fiction writer. Much of her work was published under the pen name Marchesa Colombi, a character in the comedy La satira e Parini by Paolo Ferrari.

Cristina Trivulzio BelgiojosoW
Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso was an Italian noblewoman, princess of Belgiojoso, who played a prominent part in Italy's struggle for independence. She is also notable as a writer and journalist.

Tullia ZeviW
Tullia Zevi

Tullia Zevi was an Italian journalist and writer. Zevi's family fled Italy to France and then to the US after the rise of fascism in the 1930s. While in New York City, she married Bruno Zevi. She returned to Europe in 1946, and was one of the few women journalists to report the Nuremberg Trials. On her return to Italy, she played a major role in Interfaith dialog, and was active in Italian Centre-left politics. Zevi was president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities from 1983 to 1998.