Dina Lauricella is a journalist of Palermitan origin.
She has written for various newspapers and magazines.

Her first major training ground was Radio Capital, and in 2007 she joined Michele Santoro's team of reporters for the television programs "Annozero" (Rai 2), "Servizio Pubblico" (La7), and "Italia" (Rai2).

She has authored several specials, including La Mafia che cambia, in which Angelo Provenzano, the son of the notorious boss, speaks on TV for the first time, and Stato criminale, featuring a false witness from the Via D'Amelio bombing, Vincenzo Scarantino.

In 2014, she won the Critics' Award with Sandro Ruotolo at the "Ilaria Alpi" competition for Inferno Atomico, a documentary on toxic waste in Campania. In the same year, she won the "Paolo Borsellino National Award" with the following motivation: "For her strong denouncement of the mafia system, the intrigues of negotiations, her uncomfortable interviews, her significant contribution to issues of legality and truth, her passion, and her high professional and civic commitment. Overall, for the tenacity, grit, and rigor with which she pursues her various paths."

Co-author of the book Dalla parte sbagliata – La morte di Paolo Borsellino e i depistaggi di via D’Amelio (Castelvecchi Editore 2014, 2018), winner of the "Marco Nozza" award for investigative journalism.

In 2019, she published with Einaudi Il Codice del disonore – Donne che fanno tremare la 'Ndrangheta, which earned her the "Salvatore Cambosu National Literary Award". The book also inspired the program "Disonora il padre", which she wrote and hosted on Rai3.

In 2021, she published "Donne al futuro", an anthology published by Il Mulino, co-authored with the Controparola collective founded by Dacia Maraini in 1992.

Today, she collaborates with Rai 3.