Annunziata will be the Democratic Party top candidate in the Southern Italy constituency for the 2024 European Parliament election.

In 1979 she became a professional journalist, working as a correspondent from the United States first for Il Manifesto, then for La Repubblica.

[2] She then went on to work for the Corriere della Sera and finally for RAI (Italy's national public broadcasting company) in 1995 (with the "Linea Tre" program on Rai Tre); in August 1996 she became executive editor of the TG 3, although she resigned from the job at the end of November.

[4][5] On 12 March 2006, in the middle of the electoral campaign for the Italian general election, Lucia Annunziata interviewed the then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was running for a second term, on her television program In 1/2 h (In half an hour).

She resigned from her job as executive editor of RAI in protest for Berlusconi's conflict of interest.