Departures of note

Christiana Ruggeri was an Italian journalist and writer who spent most of her career at RAI's Tg2 newscast. Born in Rome, she graduated in modern literature at La Sapienza University and began working in Roman radio and television in the 1990s before joining Tg2 in 2000, where she served in the costume-and-society and foreign desks and produced international reports. She debuted as a news presenter in 2005 with the Tg2 Mistrà segment and later hosted Tg2 Costume e Società and weekend editions of the newscast; from May 2025 she headed the science and multimedia desk. Alongside her journalism she published essays and books, including the novel La lista di carbone (2008), Dall'Inferno si ritorna (2015), I dannati (2017), children's books on environmental themes, and a 2026 biography of Ferdinand Porsche. She also founded and presided for twenty years over the animal-welfare charity Il Rifugio delle Code Felici and served as vice president of the environmental journalists' association Greenaccord.