50 years of journalism. A gold medal from the Order of Journalists to remember it. An official ceremony in the beautiful frescoed Hall of Honour of the Institute for the Blind. An audience of “colleagues” with white hair, moved, like me, in receiving an award that highlights lives dedicated to communication and to others. I am there, and I ask myself: “already?”
A medal that stands alongside the precious Ambrogino d’Oro that Mayor Pisapia awarded me in 2014. I think of my twenties, when I began my path in the newsroom of Ottagono, my professional growth through the many magazines I collaborated with, directed or created. From Vogue to Lei to Donna to Madame Figaro and countless others up to today, with our AT. And of the many books I have edited or written.
As a journalist I discovered the world and extraordinary people. I opened my heart and my mind. With this background I entered the world of events, founding, together with my husband Flavio Lucchini, the Superstudio group: another way of communicating, live, wide open to innovation, to the arts, to science, to technology, to creativity and much more. I still feel like the young aspiring journalist I once was, curious and restless, ready for challenges to anticipate the future.
I dedicate this medal to those who have followed us this far, from fifty years ago to today. Tomorrow is another day.