One of the iconic faces of Rai leaves us, the farewell to the great journalist was felt with a moving tribute from the network.
It’s never easy to say goodbye to a professional who has always given his best in his sector and who has left a legacy indelible mark in the history of communication in our country. TO 67 years oldone of the most iconic journalists in the Rai he leaves us and this void can never be filled by anyone else.
His professionalism and his humanity in telling too bloody stories And difficult have touched the hearts and minds of the Italian public who, listening to his services, were able to have aclearer idea of world events. His contribution to society was enormous and the His farewell left everyone speechless: no one would have ever imagined his absence at 67 years old.
The network did its best to her freebies and celebrated this inimitable journalist who reported some of the most important stories in history during the course of her long career. A professional in the journalistic world who reported on collapse of the Soviet Unionthe war in CroatiaThe collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the Second Gulf War in Iraq.
The journalist won the Ilaria Alpi Award and the Saint Vincent Award for his services from Baghdad and after having been the half-length figure of the Tg3 from 2004 to 2007 became correspondent from the United States of America from 2007 to 2019 and then move in China. Here, the journalist also experienced the period of Covid pandemic always demonstrating his professionalism.
A heartfelt goodbye
The journalist who left Rai forever, digging a huge, unbridgeable hole, is Giovanna Botteri. This woman was one of the first female war reporters and during his services he understood how this made a big difference. Botteri has given a voice to minorities and this served to increase the sensitivity towards the problems of others.
A female look at a violent and warlike reality but not because she was a female journalist, but because focused on different topics. At the age of 67, Giovanna Botteri leaves Rai to retire and carry out a ‘generational change’. The journalist stated that there are many young journalists and it is right to give them the space they deserve.
Giovanna Botteri, a strong and professional woman
L’Usigrai, the Rai journalists’ union, underlined the best qualities of Giovanna Botteri during its tribute for the woman’s professional farewell. “Elegance, calmness, clarity and balance” were the adjectives addressed to her, especially when speaking of when the journalist also suffered criticism of his physical appearance. During the Covid period, Botteri was gravely insulted for its looks who showed up during the services messy and with i ungroomed hair to a hairdresser every time she appeared in front of the cameras.
However, Botteri knew how to respond by underlining that the journalists of the BBC (TV where it was tuned at the time of its reports from China) are from any age, weight And nation and no one has ever allowed themselves to focus on their appearance but only on the words they said. Giovanna Botteri knows how to take hits but also how to respond.
