Maria Cristina Giongo
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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.
She was awarded the honor of "Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia" (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy) with the decree of 6 December 2022 published in the official gazette of the Quirinale, granted by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
