Maria Cuffaro is an Italian journalist and host of TG3.  Her journalistic career started at il Manifesto, for whom she was sent to India, Pakistan and South Africa. In 1986 she became a radio broadcaster at Italia Radio and went on to officially register as a professonal journalist in 1992. As investigative journalist, she has been to war zones and has produced numerous reports from Asia, Africa and South America. She has written for Sette, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Annabella, Avvenimenti (for this newspaper she has also edited a book on immigration), Die Tageszeitung, Nordreihnishcer Rundfunk (German radio) and Nuova Ecologia. Cuffaro has taken part in numerous RAI shows, both as a writer and as a guest.