Originally from Salento, she graduated in Political Science at the LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, in the Faculty of Strategic Studies. She began her journalistic career thanks to her thesis entitled “Why is Italy in Afghanistan?”, which received the Maria Grazia Cutuli International Journalism Award and gave her the opportunity to carry out an internship in the foreign editorial office of Corriere della Sera.

Her first television contract came from Tv2000, as editor and correspondent for Alessandro Sortino’s program Beati Voi. From that moment on she would never leave television, which taught her the strength of synthesis and the power of telling a good story through images; but above all it provided her with the necessary tools to be able to work well today, even outside a newsroom.

Until 2021, across TV2000, Mediaset, LA7 and Rai1, She dealt with social and economic issues, immigration, and news from the outskirts of Italy. She also obtained prestigious journalistic awards such as the Premio Michele Campione in 2019, for an investigation carried out for Matrix (Canale5) on the increasingly widespread use of cocaine among very young people.

During summer and winter breaks from her work as a correspondent, she spent long periods in Morocco, Turkey, Bosnia, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. She decided to go freelance in August 2021 to follow her original passion, Afghanistan, just when the country was returning to Taliban control. She first carried out training on war journalism to have an adequate foundation in ballistic protection, tactical medicine and first aid, and then left in the autumn of 2021, when no Western embassy present in the area any longer and even NGOs were struggling to work in the country.

She has reported on the humanitarian crisis, the condition of women, the ISIS attacks, and the Taliban world from the inside for Internazionale, Skytg24, FQ Millenium and RSI (Swiss Radio Television), being nominated as a finalist at the DIG Festival 2022, in the Dig Pitch category.

However, it was with the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine that Luciana Coluccello became a household name. In March 2022 she reported on the siege of Kharkiv, on the border with Russia, from the underground bunker where she stayed together with local volunteers. She would spend more than two weeks in that bunker. During this period, she was the only international journalist to base herself in Kharkiv, rather than in other nearby cities considered safer, and for this reason she received collaboration requests from national and international news outlets, including CNN. However, she chose to produce her reports exclusively for the La7 Piazzapulita broadcast, and to report on the war live for other network programs such as In Onda and Tagadà, as well as for RSI and Radio Rai.

She is often invited to schools and public events to talk about the role of women and mothers in Afghanistan and in war territories in general.

In 2023 she wrote Sottoterra – Cronache dai mille bunker della guerra ucraina [Underground – Chronicles from the thousand bunkers of the Ukrainian war], published by Piemme.

She speaks fluent English, French and Spanish