Maria Cristina Giongo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maria Cristina Giongo

Italian journalist and writer

Date of Birth: 05-May-1951

Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Maria Cristina Giongo (born Milan, 5 May 1951), is an Italian journalist and author. She lives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where she works as a correspondent for Italian magazines.
From 1976 until 1981 she presented a thousand broadcasts of a daily live-program for consumers, partly dedicated to interviews with well-known persons in politics, public health service, daily topics, fashion and beauty.
She won a television prize for this program ('premio onda tivu'), in the category Actuality and talkshow.
In 1997 she made a documentary about the use of drugs in the Netherlands with a team of the RAI, in cooperation with the UN. On 11 September 2016 she won the 'Premio Salento - Giornalisti del Mediterraneo - sezione terrorismo' for her article in the daily newspaper Libero: 'Ho dovuto uccidere mamma e sorella per salvarle dall'Isis'. She is a granddaughter of professor Franco Giongo, radiologist and 11 times Italian track and field athletics champion.