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BBC taps Zaccaro to serve as senior journalist

Maria Giovanna Zaccaro

Maria Giovanna Zaccaro has joined the BBC’s investigations unit as a senior journalist working across online, social, TV and radio.

Zaccaro has also worked with the broadcaster’s Executive Committee to assess and develop ideas that could help reinvent the BBC for a new generation of listeners, viewers and users.

She joined in April 2019 as a local democracy reporter.

She held the posts of health correspondent, trainee reporter and Eastleigh correspondent at the Daily Echo, a newspaper serving Southampton and Hampshire.

Zaccaro worked at the BBC from June 2016 to October 2016 as part of a work placement, holding the posts of reporter and story producer.

Zaccaro has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Università degli Studi di Siena in Italy.

You can congratulate Zaccaro on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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