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Alessandra Sardoni

Italian journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3609710
Source-derived summary

Alessandra Sardoni (born 5 May 1964) is an Italian journalist and television presenter.

Biography

Sardoni was born in Rome on 5 May 1964.

She studied with Tullio De Mauro and graduated with a degree in Philosophy of language. In 1991 Sardoni worked for the Naples section of la Repubblica. In March 1994, she became a member of the Lazio order of journalists. Sardoni became a political commentator and began working in television. She hosted Otto e mezzo and Omnibus. Sardoni now works for La7 and is one of the leading faces of the network. She has also become a writer with two books to her name.

From 2012 until April 2015, she was president of the Parliamentary Press Association, the first woman to hold the position.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alessandra Sardoni” as italian journalist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1991, 1994, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-05-05. The account is most persuasive where Alessandra, Sardoni and Italian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian journalist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3609710. VIAF identifies the subject as 91152105. The Library of Congress control number is no2009108061. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1991, 1994 and 2012.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Alessandra Sardoni” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.