Lilli Gruber
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The Honourable Lilli Gruber |
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| Member of the European Parliament for North-East Italy |
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In office June 14, 2004 – June 6, 2009 |
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| Majority | Party of European Socialists |
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Dietlinde Gruber April 19, 1957 Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy |
| Political party | The Daisy |
| Spouse(s) | Jacques Charmelot (m. 2012) |
| Alma mater | University of Venice |
| Profession | Journalist |
Dietlinde "Lilli" Gruber (born 19 April 1957) is an Italian journalist and former politician.
Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber also served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 with the Olive Tree left-wing coalition.
Gruber was born in Bolzano and is a German and Italian native speaker. She graduated in foreign languages and literature at the University of Venice. In 1982 Gruber started her journalism career and in 1987 became TG1's anchor, the main television news program on Rai Uno.
In 1988, she became political correspondent for RAI, covering events such as the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in the former Yugoslavia, the situation in the United States after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and the Iraqi war.
In 1999 she worked with the German TV channel SWF (1988) and Pro 7 (1996).
In April 2004 Gruber resigned from her position at RAI in protest against the influence on state controlled media by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. She attacked his "unresolved conflict of interest", and considered that RAI had abandoned its tradition of pluralism in order to support the government's views. Gruber has also worked for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, for "Io Donna", TV Sorrisi e Canzoni and Anna.
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