“I remember when I arrived for the first time in the Balkans, in a bombed house where everyone had been killed. War is something real, which affects you”, Giovanna Botteri told ANSA, recalling the salient moments of her career. Her journey as a journalist saw her as a war correspondent for Tg3 for a long time and then as a correspondent for Rai, making her an “icon of public service”. reflections: “A profession like this cannot be abandoned: we know how to do this and continue to do this” – said the journalist – “it is a path that perhaps can also be done in a different way”, she confessed on the phone to ANSA from Paris.
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Botteri is remembered above all for having been part of the foreign editorial staff of Tg3, for which she reported the main international events as a special correspondent, from the G8 in Genoa to the US occupation in Iraq, winning the Ilaria Alpi Award and the Saint Vincent Award for her services from Baghdad. “At this moment the thing I want very much is to thank all those who have helped me in these years in Rai” – he also said. “The beauty of this adventure is that it is a human adventure, for the people you meet, the stories that you feel, for those who work for you and with you and who perhaps are not seen. If my job was well done, it was thanks to them”.
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In the telephone interview, the journalist recounted the thrill of her first foreign expeditions, her first impressions, the value of certain experiences, the lessons learned. “Passions are all maintained, they are never abandoned”, she smiled. “Maybe, since I’m a swimming enthusiast, I’ll do more laps now” – she concluded, then her.
