Born in Carrara in 1985, Agnese Pini has headed La Nazione since August 2019, the first woman in the newspaper's 160-year history.
As of July 1, 2022, she has also been appointed Editor-in-Chief of QN Quotidiano Nazionale, Il Resto del Carlino and Il Giorno.
She graduated in literature with honors from the University of Pisa, with a thesis on the artistic and spiritual correspondence between Michelangelo Buonarroti and Vittoria Colonna, between 2009 and 2010 she studied at the IFG Walter Tobagi school of journalism in Milan.
In 2007 he joined the Carrara editorial office of La Nazione, then moved to the Milan daily Il Giorno where he covered crime and judicial news for six years. 
He returned to La Nazione in 2016 to cover the affairs of Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
During the editorship of La Nazione newspaper, she is awarded the Guidarello, Serao, and Ischia journalism awards, among others.
In 2021 Forbes Italy magazine includes her among the 100 successful Italian women of the year.
In 2022 she wins the Giovanni Spadolini Special Prize for Political Culture and is awarded the Viareggio-Rèpaci 2022 Special Mention.
On April 18, 2023, she publishes the novel Un autunno d'agosto, published by Chiarelettere.