Abstract

This interview with Valeria Palumbo aims to reconstruct, through the testimony of the multifaced figure of a female journalist who is also a novelist and a historian of women, the feminization of news making practices and cultures in Italy as during the almost 40 years of her professional experience. An exponent of what she herself calls the generation of change, Valeria Palumbo retraces the evolution of women’s access to careers in Italian journalism, bringing to light the undeniable progress and the persistent areas of criticality, the asymmetries between the increasing presence and visibility gained by women journalists and the enduring reality of their marginal access to power positions in the newsroom. Having covered many different roles during her career, which has developed through television, the daily and weekly press, women’s magazines, sport newspapers, and a well-known feminist blog, Valeria Palumbo brings to the interview a wealth of observations and reflections, reasons for satisfaction and criticism, matured in her wide-ranging experience.