Raffaella Menichini | Lead Stories
Raffaella Menichini is Deputy International Teams Manager & Editor at Lead Stories. She joined Lead Stories in November 2020, as a fact-checker for the Italian team. She has over 30 years of experience as a journalist in some of the major Italian news outlets, as a field reporter, politics, and foreign editor. In the '90s, she covered Thatcher's years, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the war in the Balkans. She covered two UK parliamentary elections and three US presidential elections. In the early 2000s, she became deputy editor of La Repubblica's digital newsroom and social media manager. Raffaella is based in Rome, Italy.
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