1. Lisa Sergio was a radio news broadcaster in Italy under Mussolini who became a leading anti-Fascist broadcaster and one of the first women to have her own radio news commentary program.
10 Facts About Lisa Sergio
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Lisa Sergio was the only woman Variety included in its 1945 analysis of 30 popular radio news commentators.
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Lisa Sergio was born Elisa Maria Alice Sergio in Florence, Italy on March 17,1905.
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Lisa Sergio's father was Baron Agostino Sergio, a landowner and her mother was Margherita Fitzgerald, daughter of Charles Hoffman Fitzgerald of Baltimore, Maryland, and Alice Lawrason Riggs from Virginia.
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Lisa Sergio's parents separated in 1910, after her father attempted to shoot her mother.
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In 1922, Sergio became an associate editor of the Italian Mail, the only English-language weekly in Italy, eventually becoming the assistant editor and then the editor.
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Frustrated because she believed that "NBC was not about to allow a woman to do news," Lisa Sergio began to work for local New York City station WQXR in 1939.
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Lisa Sergio, who had been the subject of extensive FBI surveillance since she immigrated to the United States, was blacklisted by the American Legion in 1949 and listed in the anti-communist publication Red Channels in 1950.
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Lisa Sergio was the author of several books, including a biography of Anita Garibaldi and a biography of lawyer and clubwoman Lena Madesin Phillips.
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Lisa Sergio died on June 22,1989, at her home in Washington, DC.