In the 2002 movie Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni, directed by Ferdinando Vincentini Ornagni, she is portrayed by Giovanna Mezzogiorno.

Her mother, Luciana Riccardi Alpi (1933–2018), undertook, from the first trial, a battle to seek the truth and bring down all sorts of misdirections on the murder of the journalist and the cameraman.

Ilaria Alpi arrived in Somalia for the first time in December 1992 to follow, as a TG3 correspondent, the peace mission Restore Hope, coordinated and promoted by the United Nations to put an end to the civil war that broke out in 1991, after the fall of Siad Barre.

Italy also took part in the mission, thus overcoming the reservations of the special envoy for Somalia, Robert B. Oakley, linked to the ambiguous relations that the Italian government had maintained with Barre during the eighties.

), while in 2010 the Pooh wrote the song Reporter, poignant ballad on the album Dove comincia il sole dedicated to Ilaria and her illustrious colleague, Oriana Fallaci.