Bianca Berlinguer

The first of the four children of the Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer and Letizia Laurenti (the other siblings are Maria Stella, Marco [it] and Laura, journalist of Studio Aperto), Bianca Berlinguer is married in second marriage with the politician Luigi Manconi.

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.

On 24 September 2011 she won the Premio Nazionale Alghero Donna di Letteratura e Giornalismo [it], 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.

In 2019 she published her first book, a biography on her long time friend Marcella Di Folco, character actor with Federico Fellini and transgender activist died in 2010, Storia di Marcella che fu Marcello.