WFederica Federici, better known by her stage name Isabelle Adriani, is an Italian actress, producer, journalist, singer and author.
WAminata Aidara is an Italian-Senegalese journalist, short story writer and novelist.
WGabriella 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.
WErnesta Bittanti Battisti was an Italian journalist and educator.
WBianca Maria Berlinguer is an Italian journalist. She was the director of TG3 from October 2009 to August 2016.
WSimona Bonafé is an Italian politician and journalist who currently serves as a member of the European Parliament.
WIrene Brin was an Italian fashion journalist, writer and art dealer.
WMargherita 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.
WLuciana Castellina is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist.
WAlba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.
WSilvia Costa is an Italian journalist and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2019.
WOriana 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.
WMilena 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.
WAda Gobetti (1902–1968) was an Italian teacher, journalist and anti-fascist leader. She was born Ada Prospero and later remarried to become Ada Marchesini.
WDietlinde "Lilli" Gruber is an Italian journalist and former politician.
WFrancine Lacqua is an Italian journalist, television anchor and editor-at-large for Bloomberg Television. She is fluent in English, Italian and French.
WMaria 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.
WDacia 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.
WCarla 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.
WMilena Milani (1917–2013) was an Italian writer, journalist, and artist.
WLoretta Napoleoni is an Italian journalist and political analyst. She reports on the financing of terrorism and connected topics, both finance- and security-related.
WAnna 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.
WFernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
WValentina De Poli is an Italian journalist and editor.
WEugenia Romanelli is an Italian author and journalist.
WGraziella "Lalla" Romano was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
WLea 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.
WMatilde 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.
WGiuliana 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.
WNadia 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.
WMaria 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.
WCristina 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.
WTullia 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.