Valeria Rubino is an accomplished journalist and one of the main international experts in interviewing techniques. She has been used as an example for journalism students. “Look at the person you interview in their eyes. Don’t interrupt eye contact to read your list of questions,” she suggests. “Change your questions based on the interviewee’s mood and responses.”
Another tip is to “avoid questions that could have yes or no answers” as that can kill the flow of the interview.
Valeria is a polyglot with the mind-blowing ability to engage and interview people in five different languages. She publishes videos and articles on ViaggioSport and on many other international outlets, besides her social media. Valeria is used to only counting on herself in her fight to make her dreams come true. Very impressively, she has been able to get amazing video interviews with some of the main personalities of the world of sports and news, from Bill Clinton to ministers and ambassadors, from Kobe Bryant to boxing and soccer champions. If you have watched some of Kobe Bryant’s interviews in Italian, you have probably seen her interviews.
Her star list of interviewees can go on and on, including big names of actors such as Susan Sarandon, Kathie Holmes and George Clooney, music personalities such as DMC (from Run DMC) and Jay-Z, fashion icons such as Roberto Cavalli and Vera Wang, celebrities such as Kloe Kardashian and Bill Cosby.
Valeria’s interviews to athletes are replete with passion, enthusiasm, and contagious empathy. I love her interviews to soccer stars Thierry Henry and Hugo Lloris (in French), Gigi Buffon and Sergio Chiellini (in Italian), Sergio Ramos and Juan Cuadrado (in Spanish). She also interviewed Leandro Barbosa, Nené and a professional Bull rider in Portuguese. Her talent might discourage some. Instead, it should be used as example and proof that the American Dream can still come true.
Her interviews to boxing world champions Canelo Alvarez, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, Manny Pacquiao, Danny García, Katie Taylor are moving and deep, showing a rare professionalism and exemplary technique. Besides Kobe, Valeria has interviewed NBA king LeBron James multiple times, also asking him about the pleasure of seeing his son Bronny dunk and his future plans to be in the league with his son. The NBA interviewed Valeria for a documentary about LeBron.
Valeria's videos of the locker room celebrations when the teams win the NBA championship are an exquisite example of sports journalism. She has great interviews with all the big basketball icons, from Magic Johnson to Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. From Dirk Nowitzki to Vince Carter and Manu Ginobili. From International sensation Luka Doncic to today’s new stars Paolo Banchero and Jayson Tatum.
Valeria grew up in Italy, where she was a professional swimmer. She spent her childhood between swimming pools and books. She ended up competing for team Italy in 25k open water swim marathons. “These races last 5-6 hours, depending on waves, currents, weather conditions. You suffer a lot during such long competitions. Muscles and joints hurt for weeks afterwards. But these races teach you that anything is possible if you really want it,” Valeria commented.
After getting a bachelor’s degree cum laude, she took her first master’s degree in law in Naples before moving to Miami for her second master’s in broadcast journalism.
She is a Southern Italian from a very old-fashioned family in Naples. What’s considered as normal there is to stay close to home, live with your parents or in the apartment next to them. But Valeria dreamed about the United States. After attending the University of Miami, already a dream come true, she started working with ESPN, TNT, Sun Sports covering basketball, a sport she is so passionate about. She found herself catapulted in a world she had only dreamed of. She worked for French Tv, Spanish radio ESPN Todo Deporte and Italian tv. She had another dream: Living in New York. She moved from Florida to The City.She is now a foreign correspondent for LaPresse wire service and for the oldest Italian newspaper, Il Roma. She collaborates with the most prestigious Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, and with Corriere TV, covering sports. She is also a news producer and technical director for Rai, the main Italian news network. She manages ViaggioSport.com.
Valeria is also publishing a book about recipes from the chefs of Italian restaurants of the present and of the past in the Big Apple: Taste of Italy in NY. She is launching a new website and app called bestplacestokiss, a sort of travel guide for couples.
During her career she had to endure difficulties. Sexual harassment is considered as normal in the Italian entertainment world. And she worked with many Italians, despite being in the States. She never accepted compromises, kept her integrity, refused the jobs for which people expected sexual favors. She got discouraged many times, but never gave up. She thought of leaving the journalistic world and start working in real estate, she got two licenses, only to find out it wasn’t that much different.
In the meantime, she kept her dream of covering sports alive. And perseverance paid off. Besides being one of the go to journalists for interviewing techniques, Valeria is a motivation for every person with big, difficult dreams because she is the living proof they can become reality.
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