Goracci Lucia

Italian journalist known for her work as a daytime and evening television news broadcaster and as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Latin America. She started her career on Rai in the editorial office of TGR Sicilia, where she presented the afternoon and evening news; subsequently, she was a journalist sent to the Middle East for Tg2 until she was hired by Tg3 as a presenter of Tg3 mezzasera, Tg3 notte, as well as one of the journalists often in the studio of Tg3 Linea Notte. She alternated his presence in the studio with work abroad, in particular in the Middle East or Latin America: in fact, she documented, among others, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the accident in the San José mine in Chile, and the Libyan civil war. Since 2013 she has worked at RaiNews24. She continued to report international issues as a correspondent (she followed the presidential elections in Iran, the visit of the President of the United States of America Barack Obama to Berlin, the protests in Brazil during the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013, in Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi, and in Gaza in August 2014). In 2015 she worked as a reporter in Syrian and Iraqi territories, along the border with the Islamic State, on the front line. In August 2021 she was sent by Rai to Kabul during the operations aimed at guaranteeing the escape of Afghan refugees after the Taliban took power in the country, returning on the evening of the 27th with the last evacuation flight carried out by the Italian government. Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian) Read less