Giovanna Botteri is an Italian

Italy

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 journalist.

She was born in Trieste

Trieste

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. Her father was Guido Botteri, a journalist RAI

RAI

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, and a Montenegrin mother.

She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

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. Giovanna Botteri is an Italian television foreign policy journalist. From 1991 to 1996, she covered the conflict in Croatia and Bosnia. After featuring with Santoro in the TV programme Samarcanda, Giovanna Botteri has worked as a war correspondent for Channel 3 News from Algeria, South Africa, Iran, Albania and Kosovo.

Giovanna Botteri is the United States correspondent for RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

Italian broadcasting system.