Biography

Barese, 48 years old, lives between Rome and Milan. She has a classical high school diploma and studied anthropology (graduating with honors in History of Folk Traditions at La Sapienza), then realized that reporting on contemporaries would be more interesting and ended up becoming a journalist. The first five years of her profession were a “conscription service” in Giorgio Dell “Arti’s (Vespina) editorial service, where depending on the time of day she was Marianna Aprile of Il Foglio, Marianna Aprile of Donna Moderna, Marianna Aprile of IODonna and of another” dozen publications. After Vespina, she worked as a freelancer writing about everything; then, in 2008, she joined Rcs (at Novella2000, directed by Candida Morvillo) and from 2010 to 2024 worked at Oggi (she is a section head in the “central office), where under the direction first of Umberto Brindani then of Carlo Verdelli she signed important exclusives including the first interview and first photos of ‘Ruby Rubacuori’; the worldwide exclusive with Francesco Schettino’s wife, the” day after the Costa Concordia shipwreck; the viral Fagiolino Gate, born from “the exclusive interview with Francesca Pascale; the””iconic cover with Salvini Desnudo. She has participated as a speaker and/or moderator-host at major journalism festivals and in 2016 even ventured into a mini-show (L” Edicola del ridicolo, on the “tics” of journalistic language in Italy) conceived and written with Alessio Viola (SkyTg24), as “part of the festival Il Senso del Ridicolo, directed in Livorno by Stefano Bartezzaghi. In the” 2017-2018 academic year, she taught the course Journalism and Politics in Italy at the Master’s in Journalism at the “Iulm University of Milan. Since 2014, she occasionally does an” Erasmus in TV. She co-hosted and co-authored Rai3’s summer political talk show Millennium (2014) and authored Rai2’s late-night show dedicated to millennials, Generazioni (2015-2016); for a while “she was a” guest on general interest programs on current affairs topics (Vita in diretta, Unomattina), then preferred to opt for in-depth political programs (Agorà, PiazzaPulita, DiMartedì, Tagadà, Otto e mezzo). Since “August 2022, she has been hosting InOnda on La7 with Luca Telese. For a few years now, she has been enjoying working as a media trainer. Meanwhile, she has written a book about the complicated relationship between women and Italian politics (Il grande inganno, Piemme 2019) and a novel (In balia, Nave di Teseo 2021). From January 2025, she collaborates with Marie Claire, a monthly magazine where she also writes the current affairs column Appunto and hosts the in-depth program Amici e Nemici on Radio 24 with Daniele Bellasio; also in 2025, she will be back in bookstores with a book for Piemme written with Luca Telese. She has been involved for a long time, in various forms, in the campaign for legal euthanasia and living wills of the” Luca Coscioni Association, collaborates with Emergency, and supports Amnesty.