
Journalist / Internet Professional
Milan Area, Italy

Journalist / Internet Professional
Milan Area, Italy
Web Content and Community Manager, Editor in Chief, Writer. Start-up of editorial projects online. Launch and debug of websites, online communities and social networks.
Freelance Journalist with a broad experience in International Journalism, specialized in Fashion, Entertainment, Women, Food and Travels.
Nine years experience in web content and community management, four years working for a major Italian media group (Telecom Italia Media S.p.A.). Community manager for the female web sites of one of the biggest publisher in Italy (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A.), now working as Editor in Chief and Web specialist for Rcs Mediagroup S.p.A. at the female web portal www.leiweb.it.
Three years in professional journalism corresponding from US and France for both magazines and the Press Agency ApCom.
Expert in web sites projects and launch, web content management, online community generation and in the integration of the Internet with others media.
Assisted in the production of short format news features from pre-production stage through post.
Trilingual: English, French and Italian. Highly motivated and focused, always interested in exploring new challenges in the means of communication.
Web Content & Community Management, Journalism & Online news editing, Web usability, CMS, HTML,Tv production & Video Editing, SEO
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Project and launch of RCS Rizzoli first women website : LeiWeb www.leiweb.it ; Editor in chief supervising a group of 20 editors and bloggers. Project, debug and launch of Leiweb's Community. Managing social network presence of the website's editorial content. Coordination with Rizzoli Periodici women magazines editorial staff (Io donna, A, Amica). Content supervision of the whole website. Report to Leiweb Editorial Director.
(Internet industry)
February 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Contributor to the Blogo.it Network. Writer for Pinkblog.it
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; MN.MI; Publishing industry)
April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year )
Rethinking and managing the whole community area of the women's magazines websites published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., such as Cosmopolitan.it, Donnamoderna.com and Starbene.it
(Writing and Editing industry)
September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Freelance correspondent and writer for the website Treccani Cinema, specialised in International Movies and Entertainment Business
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)
March 2007 — September 2007 (7 months)
Freelance writer for the monthly magazines GQ and GQ Style
(Privately Held; RCS.MI; Writing and Editing industry)
January 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Freelance writer for the Italian magazines Max (RCS), Hot Dog (Play Press), Io Cucino (Quadratum), FilmTv
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2005 — August 2005 (8 months)
Assisted in the production of short format news features from pre-production stage through post
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for finding stories and edit news for the Italian press agency ApCom (affiliated with Associated Press).
News correspondent from New York, NY and San Francisco, CA for ApCom NY (EMC)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TME.MI; Internet industry)
January 2000 — December 2003 (4 years )
Web Content Management, Web Developement, Design and launch of new content formats on the Internet. Internet community management. Project and launch of Tv content on the Web. Follow the content publication and establish relationship with external content providers.
Under my supervision the website "Virgilio Cinema" became the most visited Italian Entertainment Website* (*Data Nielsen Net Ratings)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Design and start-up of the Anthropology and History sections of the website Italiadonna (www.italiadonna.it) sponsored by the European Community Funds
(Publishing industry)
May 1998 — November 1998 (7 months)
Translation from English to Italian of the gaming magazine PSM - PlayStation Magazine
(Motion Pictures and Film industry)
September 1991 — December 1996 (5 years 4 months)
Managing clients and countability for this small filming company. Video logging of documentaries. Archiving filmed material.
(Telecommunications industry)
May 1989 — December 1990 (1 year 8 months)
Animation of videotel (Italian Minitel) chat online. Managing contacts.
110 e lode , Anthropology , 1991 — 1997
Graduated with Honors in Archaeoastronomy
Liceo Classico 1986 — 1991
Internet, Media, Movie industry, Fashion, Weblogging, Travel, Food, Knitting and crocheting
Italian Journalist Association (Ordine dei Giornalisti), Web Women Italy, LeiWeb, Girl Geek Dinners Italia
Who’s Who in The World, 2004 - Who's Who in Fashion - Italy, 2009