Oct. 13 – How to tell the world with a touch of pink? RAI journalist Lucia Goracci has been doing it for years. And last Friday, as Salerno hosts the IV National UIL Congress on Public Administration, Goracci was awarded the prize "The pink pen," organized by UILPA to reward the journalist who, in 2013, emerged as the Italian envoy around the world. The initiative aims to highlight the continuous and careful work that Italian female war journalists carry out in the world, often interacting with our diplomatic, consular and cultural facilities abroad. Lucia Goracci receives the UILPA Foreign Affairs Award for her ability to tell, through images and text, not only the facts that make the crisis but also the people, often other women, who suffer under oppressive and discriminatory cultures. Lucia Goracci is also the focus of an article in "UILPA Magazine", UILPA’s online newspaper. The newspaper is "a new project, which will take off in the coming months, and we wanted to present it in paper format at the Congress," said Benedetto Attili yesterday, at the conclusion of the Congress. 

LUCIA GORACCI

Lucia Goracci is the foreign envoy for RAI News 24. She has a degree in Political Science from LUISS University in Rome; she entered RAI in 1995, working for the TGR Sicily, RAI News 24 and then TG3. She has traveled to Africa, Europe, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories (Gaza War 2008-2009), Iran (the Green Wave protests 2009), Haiti (the 2010 earthquake), Libya (2011 anti-Gaddafi uprisings), Latin America, India, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. More recently, she followed the Syrian crisis and the US presidential elections. She has received, among others, the Antonio Russo (2008), Ilaria Alpi (2011), Luigi Barzini (2012) and Cutuli (2013) journalism awards.