Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
Barcamp Environmental news in Italy is becoming a case study regarding the changes introduced by digital media. While classic topics struggle to take the digital road and mainstream media often ...
Description to come. Organised by the Ordine dei Giornalisti
The purpose of this masterclass is to provide journalists and journalism students with the knowledge base to use Twitter and its ecosystem of apps to search, surface and verify relevant and newswort...
Building on the "Window on Europe" communication project set up in 2008 at the University of Perugia, this workshop aims to address the issue of information and communication about the European Un...
In the year of the Expo, which is also the year of decisions that should be taken on climate change, the project giornalisti Nell'erba embarks on new challenges. It has started #gNeLab, a laborato...
Description to come. Organised in association with Twitter.
The management of social media for newspapers. Community management in order to go beyond click baiting.
Which tools to use to analyze and present open data made available by the Public Administrations. We will use LibreOffice for reprocessing statistical information and other open source software usef...
This panel aims at raising awareness among fellow journalists (and readers) on how issues concerning the African continent are treated, urging them to spread more carefully qualified news and events...
Journalistic professionalism and ethics dilemmas in China under social media challenges Presenter: Ye Jin, PhD Candidate, University of Coventry The environment for contemporary news reporting in ...
FIMA, the Italian Federation of Environmental Media presents the Charter of Environmental Information as a result of shared reflections, submitting it before journalists and environmental communicat...
MeMo is a cooperative founded by a group of award-winning photographers committed to independent coverage of stories with a focus on human rights. In partnership with Libre, a group of passionate ...
Presentation of and discussion of the issues raised in the book Cacciavite, robot e tablet. La politica industriale: un confronto fra Italia e Germania by Dario Di Vico.
Maps can help us tell compelling stories, and there are a variety of tools available for creating beautiful maps for an online audience. We’ll provide an overview of a variety of mapping tools, an...
A workshop for those involved in press office work. Press releases for cultural events fly around like confetti. But what content should be included to maximise effectiveness? What should not? Who ...
What kind of culture is in the news? Scenarios change, places change, themes change. There is a need to think about different forms of cultural news which are specific for the Internet and the mains...
Organised in association with Google.
In Italy, environmental and participatory journalism runs parallel to mainstream information, without crossing it. How should we bring an ecological local problem to the attention of a national audi...
The workshop will offer participants a synthesis of conceptual and design tools useful for the following: to make complex information more accessible, to collocate data in time and space, to make co...
On the rise and fall of a financial charlatan who for two years ran rings around journalists and manipulated the market.
This session focuses on the successful launch in Italy of The Local, the largest English-language news network in Europe, and the highs and lows of the past two years in the country. With tradition...
When it comes to news sites, audiences are showing a growing appetite for interactivity, with quizzes and games often ranking amongst publishers' most popular stories of the year. Meanwhile, some of...
A survival guide for journalists and bloggers. By Bruno Saetta and Fulvio Sarzana, lawyers and bloggers. From defamation to the right to be forgotten, an overview of the most frequent cases of remo...
The sales-advertising duo is now defunct. What are the possible business models for a sustainable news operation?
After the big fail of the Italian media in Lima, with the presence of just two freelance journalists, how will the Italian press address the COP21 in Paris? Does it have the commitment and the exper...
A new book by Aldo Cazzullo leads us to the heart of the Resistance, with stories of everyday heroism that force us to question our present. "The Resistance is a heritage that belongs to the nation....
Instagram is a strong visual communication tool, useful also for reportage. It is a social network with over 300 million registered users worldwide, surpassing even Twitter. Images communicate parti...
Presentation of the book Confesso che ho indagato (2015) by Michele Giuttari. In conversation with Alvaro Fiorucci.
The parallel and secret lives of millions of Italian men. What are marital and partner relationships becoming in Italy? Riccardo Iacona reveals the most unspeakable voice of Italian males. Fathers, ...
I bambini sanno Preview A Walter Veltroni movie. An original Sky production, produced by WILDSIDE in partnership with PALOMAR and distributed by BIM I bambini sanno (The children know) is the new...
Screening od TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose (Sweden, 2013, 82’). It’s the day before the trial starts. Fredrik packs a computer into a rusty old Volvo. Along with his...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 news analysis morning show Voci del Mattino presented by Paolo Salerno.
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
The steps that I have learned never to skip, in 15 years of website designing for the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (I am in charge of the Information Architecture and User Experience Design area) ...
Annual get-together of Italian school pupils involved in writing for and producing their school newspapers. Over 100 budding journalists will address the key issues in a three-day forum.
Understanding the news in Italy through the use of data. The Hackathon will take place in Italian. Please see the Italian-langauge festival website for full details (in Italian).
Too often journalists tell their readers and viewers what they consider to be the problem. Reporters sometimes try to find ways to prove their own beliefs instead of listening to the real-life expe...
For the last few years the rise of data journalism has generated some hope that newsrooms could make use of new technologies for better reporting. But what about enabling newsrooms to create new servi...
Organised in association with Google.
For a long time, journalists have had no real interest in finding out what impacts their stories are having: "Get the story out now. And tomorrow is a new news day" seems to have been the motto. We ...
The long Italian transition is moving towards an increasingly accentuated oligarchic structure, which corresponds to a increasingly broad and generalist area of recipients of the message. Time and s...
Wars and political unrest have displaced millions of people. With Italy's Mare Nostrum mission tailing off, and the EU's border agency lacking resources (and political goodwill), the boat migratio...
In the North of Italy there is an environmental emergency due to illegal toxic waste spill but politicians and the media are struggling to admit it. Why? What are the points of contact and the diffe...
People reporting offenses or irregularities often risk serious personal repercussions, sometimes putting their own life at risk. This seminar intends to illustrate best practice and the latest tec...
As news events break, newsrooms need the ability to contextualize and verify reports, photos and videos from social media channels. We’ll discuss some simple tools to help journalists verify infor...
AJ+ is the recently launched digital-only video news network that was birthed out of the Al Jazeera's innovation department. AJ+'s endeavor is to reimagine the news for a mobile-centric generation. ...
This panel will take a look at the booming independent and quarterly magazine production of the last few years and explore how despite the crisis of traditional print media an incredible number o...
New technology and media-activism are profoundly changing the job of war correspondents: no longer sole witnesses to events, able however to work in real time.
This workshop is for journalists who wish to learn how to receive material from anonymous sources. During the workshop, the Hermes Study Centre will be at your disposal to enable you to test a part...
The contest - whose budget this year is €7,000 - is dedicated to the memory of Nunzio Bassi, who was a teaching coordinator of the School of Journalism and Public Broadcasting of Perugia for 20 ye...
From the Gaza Strip to the Ukraine, from Scampia to the Parisian banlieues. Journalists at any cost, even at the risk of their own life. A meeting with freelance journalists, an invisible and tirele...
The story started on 17 February, in Milan, with a man arrested. It was the beginning of Tangentopoli and the Clean Hands investigation. 1992 was a 'sadly' extraordinary year in Italian history. The...
The shift to mobile-first journalism is challenging both the way journalists produce and present interactive news for mobile audiences. Montgomery will show new ways of reporting and sharing videos ...
The European Parliament and Council have declared 2015 the "European Year for Development." It is dedicated to the theme of international cooperation and sustainable development issues, with the mot...
Khartoum is the capital of Sudan, the home country of the cartoonist Khalid Albaih, from which he is in exile. "Khartoon!" is a play on words and the name of his Facebook page. Albaih's cartoons hav...
By Bruno Saetta and Fulvio Sarzana, lawyers and bloggers. This seminar will address the state of European legislation and national laws on intellectual property, the reform under discussion in th...
Quality journalism still matters, but in the digital age how can media organisations stay relevant and build audience while still protecting a commitment to accuracy, fairness, and independence? In...
In Hungary the space for independent journalism has been shrinking since years. Publishers are struggling with the distorted media landscape and the excessive legislative and advertising power of ...
Description to come. Organised in association with Coca-Cola
A showcase of the best digital tools to find, capture, collect, archive, organize and present the best information, resources or tools on a specific topic. In this workshop you will be able to unde...
Current events and policy analysis of the Middle East often hide another face of its changing societies. The world of young people is hidden, and the progressive cultural approach to a global cultur...
Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, South Sudan – reporting from and on these conflicts is often dangerous and it is difficult to unravel the complexities of the situation on the ground and to make it un...
What happens when a young person decides to become a journalist? Difficulties of access to the profession, an unprecedented crisis of the system, whether training in specialized schools actually w...
If all of our analytics went up in smoke, would we truly, genuinely miss them? Stijn will talk about really taking the time to understand our audience and ourselves, rather than jumping to conclusi...
The business model of online media, which appears during user navigation as a seemingly innocent banner between intelligence and legal gaps, is causing a flow of data towards foreign nations. This d...
Description to come. Organised by TIM.
From news to commentaries, from weather forecast to traffic, from interviews to talk shows, from press reviews to infotainment. The radio has always been synonymous with news and services to citiz...
Virtual reality, once the stuff of science fiction, is now poised to go mainstream through consumer devices like the Oculus Rift, Samsung GearVR and Google's Cardboard headsets for Android phones....
A brief introduction to train all journalists on effective use of line charts, bar charts, pies and combinations. The main goal is to teach what makes a correct, basic chart and why. Level: beginner...
Description to come.
StoryMaker believes everyone has the capacity to participate in creating great journalism. Our app is usable in more than a half dozen languages, with users spanning the globe already producing bett...
Each year, the Online News Association honors excellent digital journalism with its Online Journalism Awards. Recent winners will break down how they created award-winning, compelling narratives, an...
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The issues of international development and cooperation are becoming increasingly complex, urgent and interrelated. At the same time, new technologies allow more real-time news and different sources...
Ebola: beyond reporting. New ethics and practices of the media in the face of an unprecedented global crisis Over the last few months, the Ebola crisis has posed a unique set of challenges to the w...
In Italy, despite the plethora of sources, we seem more and more isolated from the rest of the world. While some brackets of readers and professionals complain about the reduction of the space dedic...
How to recount the First World War one hundred years after its outbreak? By using the words of those who lived through it, with educational and interactive tools. This is the project entitled The Gr...
In April 2015, The Gold Medals (Contrasto) will be published. It will be the first book that traces the history of photography during the last sixty years (1955-2015), through the winning images of ...
When news broke in late 2013 that global regulators were investigating how currency traders allegedly manipulated a key industry benchmark, a story which led to a $4 billion fine for banks a few mon...
From newsstand to news feed: Facebook and the shift to mobile. Advances in technology have always impacted how news reaches its readers. Now, as mobile's growth continues on a steep trajectory, t...
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What does it really mean to be a brand? How does branding apply to writers, photographers, and those in the creative and journalism arena? All brands have a psychology and culture, so that learning ...
The relationship between Google and news publishers is ambiguous. Some publishers, as witnessed by the closure request of GoogleNews in Spain, continue to think of Google as a content thief. But the...
The rise of political fact-checking has brought important accountability journalism to countries around the world. But you don¹t have to work for a fact-checking site to hold politicians accountabl...
Limitations to freedom of information are not the exclusive domain of repressive or undemocratic regimes. Freedom of information can be limited and/or threatened in many ways, including the inappropri...
Examples of ways to interpret your geodata. Visualizing geodata - pretty maps. Descriptions and short examples of significant tools to manipulate and visualize geodata, on desktop and online. Lev...
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Crowdfunding journalism - lessons from Germany’s biggest crowdfunding project and the start of a European movement. Krautreporter started as a German version of the US crowdfunding platform spot....
Live streaming not available In 2006, the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo decided to republish the cartoons of the Danish newspaper Jilland-Posten, which caused a wave of violence because o...
How to cover sport and preserve the pleasure of storytelling at a time when television is obsessively present. Once journalists served as the eyewitnesses of the exploits of champions like Meazza or...
Multidevice distribution of editorial content in digital kiosks and on pay-per-view platforms. Edicola Italiana, the online distribution platform of editorial content founded by Digital Magics and t...
Andrea Accomazzo, the European Space Agency Rosetta Mission operations manager, Alessandro Baricco, director and founder of the Scuola Holden, and Diego Piacentini, Senior Vice President International...
A discussion on the unlikely rise of current Italian PM Matteo Renzi, taking as its starting point the book L'intoccabile. Matteo Renzi - la vera storia (2014) by Davide Vecchi.
by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco theatrical adaption by Salvo Piparo texts by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, Salvo Piparo, Salvo Licata, Giuseppe Sottile, Ficarra&Picone music by Costanza Licata and Rosama...
L'Aquila, frammenti di memoria by Daniele Segre, Italy, 2014. The headquarters of the Abruzzo Experimental Center of Cinematography - National Film School presents the multimedia installation L'Aqu...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 news analysis morning show Voci del Mattino presented by Paolo Salerno.
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
From The Migrants Files and Generation E experiences, data journalism has become a distributed and multi-linguistic phenomenon able to shed light on strictly European phenomena and create an unpre...
Andrea Rangone will analyze the digital media market in Italy in order to highlight the main trends of innovation and make a comparison with the European scenario. The main innovative business model...
Annual get-together of Italian school pupils involved in writing for and producing their school newspapers. Over 100 budding journalists will address the key issues in a three-day forum.
The fight for survival – in the journalism jungle at least - is very much still on. The single hats-off winning business model has yet to be found - assuming there is one. But there is certainly n...
Wikipedia is the largest publishing project in the world. For this reason, the festival Hackathon in partnership with Dataninja.it and Wikimedia Italy aims to understand what journalists can do for ...
Good news is no news… or is it? Why the world needs constructive journalism. A talk by the founders of the Constructive Journalism Project. Many of us went into journalism with a desire to help ...
This session will help you to uncover the secrets of Twitter’s Advanced Search and to really master the art of social discovery. Designed by former BBC journalist Sue Llewellyn, this Masterclass ...
Public radio and television broadcasting stations in East and South-East Europe are creating an independent news system. Some countries have already started reforms and laws of reorganization of the...
Organised in association with Google.
Journalism has never been as necessary or as in danger as it is today. Free expression in all its forms is threatened by power and criminality, which try to bend or halt the testimonies of those who h...
On wordclouds and 3D charts -- and why sometimes it's ok to break rules in data visualization. There are lots of lists of do's and don'ts in news graphics, but while being helpful in theory, many o...
New networks, new services. How the role of the telephone company is changing: from simple provider of voice, sms and connectivity services to a full-blown enabler of digital Italy. Organised by TI...
The shooting down of flight MH17 is one of the greatest war crimes of modern times – and the truth still hasn’t been told. On 17 July 2014, at about 16:20 local time, Malaysia Airlines flight MH...
It is often said – frequently so after the Charlie Hebdo attack in January 2015 - that satire has no limits, that satire should not follow ordinary rules of journalistic criticism. Is this correct...
The impact of new technologies on content creation and the active and aware role of readers will be the focus of the panel entitled On the readers’ side: “the future of journalism” seen by Europ...
Photography in the internet age is becoming more and more frenetic and "instantaneous", but for some photographers slow working rhythms and an accurate research and preparatory work still remain ...
On the occasion of Expo 2015, where China will be present with three pavilions, there will be a focus on Chinese news on Italy. More than a million Chinese visitors are expected in Milan. Through th...
The Islamic State uses the media, especially the Internet, as never before by any jihadist organization. What are its techniques, what are its goals, what results has its propaganda reached? Most im...
From the first video-cameras of the 1980s to the smartphones of today, video-journalists have become more and more central to news-making. They are now a key feature of the news industry. But what d...
How curating and organizing existing information can provide hundreds of new profit-making opportunities for journalists. A gallery of real-world examples of economically sustainable businesses base...
A newspaper publisher thrown in jail. A murderous human-flesh-eating senator. A former Charles Taylor government official running the journalism school. And a small nexus of passionate storytellers...
At IJF14, ONA sought global input on a build-your-own ethics code to help guide news outlets around the world in considering how they would approach ethical issues in the digital realm. This year, O...
Presently, user-generated content represents an extremely valuable and sometimes unique source of journalistically relevant news, facts and images. Nevertheless, the use of this information, and in ...
Rebooting a 200-year-old Startup. How the Guardian is making the transition to a digitally led newsroom. Introduction by Andrea Iannuzzi.
A hands-on workshop with the latest digital tools that can open a world of possibilities for journalists. From smart searching to social media analysis and storytelling tools. The workshop starts wi...
Journalists have been publishing on the Internet for more than 25 years, but they are still relying on old story forms of just a headline and text. Structured journalism harnesses the power of the I...
In a world with more freedom of expression and opinion, where the public can broadcast real-time events globally, and when audiences expect to be a part of the conversation, journalists and media co...
The picture of the Ukrainian conflict presented by Russia’s main media outlets controlled by the state or oligarchs loyal to the Kremlin is black and white. The Kiev junta kills innocent people, r...
The romantic art of penetrating into systems, the collective perception of the Hacker, the innovation process: all elements to be redefined. The landscape has changed and much of it is due to a stre...
Do online comments on news sites have a future, or will we see more and more news organisations closing their comment boards and handing all their conversations over to Facebook and social media? Is...
The speakers will present a variety of topics linked to Europe. A discussion will follow with a group of school pupils in an attempt to find the best way to speak about Europe with youngsters. Orga...
The session will present Vocativ’s unique technology and data expertise, which allows journalists to explore the deep web to discover original stories, hidden perspectives, emerging trends, and...
A debate inspired by an article by BBC reporter Dave Lee, where he questions how to report when there are cyber attacks. Listed below there are some points to highlight the main themes analyzed. "Cyb...
This session will unveil new findings about the use of user generated content by eight online newspapers, including the New York Times and the Guardian, the Daily Mail, and the Sydney Morning Herald...
Upgrade your mobile video reporting toolkit with the best gear and story techniques: • Choose the best gear and apps for video reports • Film shots that are easy to edit • Create short form...
As journalists progress in their careers, their online reputation is an essential component of who they are, and how their work is perceived. In this workshop, we will discuss best practices for s...
How do journalists use Change.org, the largest worldwide platform of online activism, to go beyond the news and try to create real change in society? Journalists will recount their transition from...
The Internet has expanded the possibility of access to primary sources of information to everybody. This process deprives the journalist of the feature of unique mediator between news and audience. ...
Description to come. Organised in association with Coca-Cola
On 28 January 2015 in Turin, the trial began in which the Italian novelist Erri De Luca was charged with incitement after he called for sabotage in favour of the protest movement against the develop...
We all need to be the first to run social and user-generated content when breaking news happens. That is the nature of a competitive news business. But what about asking for permission, or even wait...
Andy Rocchelli was a photographer and founder of the photography collective Cesura. He was killed in 2014 when he was at work during the Ukranian civil war with the journalist and activist Andrei Mi...
How have journalism and visual storytelling changed in the age of web documentaries and multimedia stories? What are the different ways to do long term cross-media projects without the support of...
Learn how to use social media to break stories by harnessing the power of twitter data. This workshop will give you an overview of what APIs are and when are they useful, as well as a hands on w...
Almost permanently online, with a hard-wired disposition to share or like anything eye-catching, not cash or asset-rich yet but they will be soon; meet the Millennials, any advertiser’s swoon drea...
For some time, press freedom in Turkey has not been enjoying good health. Beyond putting pressure on the press and civil liberties, in March 2014 and once again in April 2015 the Turkish government bl...
Strategies for sabotaging media in the Balkans: case studies of Vijesti (Montenegro) and BIRN (Serbia) Vijesti.me - How does a dissident newspaper survive in an official EU candidate country, amid ...
A story of freedom and denied rights. Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been held in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, despite having been acquitted for lack of evidence. In 2005, he began writing a...
A joint investigation by the journalism centers IRPI in Italy and ANCIR in South Africa together with quattrogatti.info looking at how Italian mafias have permeated Africa's economies. From money l...
In a rapidly changing world, marked by a major employment crisis, what are the most important skills to give journalism students? How to equip them for the present and an evolving future?
The digital ecosystem linked to the distribution of video content is evolving rapidly, thanks to an increasingly pervasive use of social networks and a widespread dissemination of high-performance m...
Where have the harmless and fun Nabaztag bunnies gone? The Internet of Things, born ten years ago in SCADA and home automation, has found its ideal terrain thanks to the phenomenon of smartphones, a...
Is the TV political talk show really over? What's the future for the presentation of political policy on TV? Once upon a time in Italy TV talk shows were the third chamber of the republic. TV studi...
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In June 2013, NSA contractor Edward Snowden met with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen Macaskill and film-maker Laura Poitras in Hong Kong. The whistleblower gave them documents which proved t...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, Caterpillar presented by Massimo Cirri.
The iPad has become by now an advanced professional tool where privacy and data security matters are fundamental also due to the close link with Cloud Computing. Often this and similar tools involve...
What entices a seasoned journalist to leave a high-profile mainstream media job for a new digital adventure? For example Miguel Mora, who left the leading Spanish daily El Pais to set up with others...
What is the future of Italian and European football? What are the strategies to be adopted for a development project in this area? Have any developments been made in the complex relationship between...
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First presentation in Italy of the latest novel by Etgar Keret, entitled in Italian Sette anni di felicità, due to be published in April 2015. In conversation with Massimo Cirri. If a rocket ca...
Screening of The act of killing – director’s cut by Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, 2012, 159’). Executive producer: Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. W...
A documentary-reportage from India. The meeting between a great writer, who becomes a director for the first time, and the stories of three Italians who chose India as the place for a new beginning....
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Superdesk is a new story-driven platform for newsrooms that handles news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing end-to-end. More (and different) than a CMS, Superdesk is open so...
Introduction to the essentials of how websites are built, followed by a hands-on training on scraping them with simple tools like import.io. Level: beginner/intermediate. Organised in association w...
Annual get-together of Italian school pupils involved in writing for and producing their school newspapers. Over 100 budding journalists will address the key issues in a three-day forum.
May 2015 will mark the fifth anniversary of Chelsea Manning’s arrest. Manning is the US soldier who became the source of some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks published in 2010. Thanks to Manning’...
Join Kickstarter's Journalism Outreach Lead Nicole He for a primer on how to launch your journalism project. Whether you're a writer, a publisher, or you're creating something altogether new, we can...
Younger audiences are discovering and consuming news with very different habits than older generations. This panel will explore how content is being packaged differently to reach these audiences t...
At the end of 2013, Peter Grestle, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of Al Jazeera were arrested in Egypt on charges of spreading false information and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, the politica...
Squatters, evictions, lack of popular housing. In 2014 the housing emergency housing catapulted the San Siro district of Milan to the center of national and local news. In this area - which is not f...
This session will show you how to tweet like a ninja. Designed by former BBC journalist Sue Llewellyn, this Twitter Masterclass has been delivered to over 4000 presenters and journalists across the...
Challenged by a radically new scenario and undermined by nimble new competitors, mainstream media is hard at it trying to weather the digital revolution. Put bluntly, is there any place in the futur...
Privacy for sale: secrets and intimacies in the control society. Presentation of the book Internet, controllo e libertà (2015) by Giovanni Ziccardi.
While we would all like for our journalistic evidence to be delivered to our doorsteps in nicely-formatted spreadsheets, more often than not that is not the case. Instead, information often comes as...
Irpileaks, Afrileaks, OCCRPLeaks, Whistleblowing.jp The Hermes Center, author of the GlobaLeaks project, and the investigative journalism centers IRPI (Italian), ANCIR (African), OCCRP (Balkan) wi...
Teaching journalism needs innovation and leadership. It is time to change the way we teach and the way we organize Journalism Schools. Four areas will be considered: entrepreneurship, leadership, ne...
Modern technology and digital communication play an enormous role in our daily lives. State infrastructure, the private sector, and the general public increasingly rely on information technology t...
Italian Lower House of Parliament speaker Laura Boldrini will present the Internet Bill Of Rights, the charter that had been much desired by the creator of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee. It was elabora...
With just 60 days to go before the first presentation of the draft text for an Italian FOIA before the Italian Parliament, a discussion on the proposal and associated issues.
Description to come. Organised by Amazon
During the Wired Next Festival 2014 - the event mostly remembered for the blitz of taxi drivers against Uber Italy - it was explained, in a few hours, how a newsroom can be equipped with a new edito...
Description to come. Organised by TIM
In the Italian media, the Far East is often associated with superficial storytelling which stops at the "excesses", without a more profound analysis. The session will examine some examples in order to...
Learn how to report compelling interactive visual stories using your mobile devices, apps and gear: • Visual story planning and writing to pictures • Tips for creating interactive images (with...
Our society is evolving from an economy based on the product to an economy based on experience. What are the consequences for journalism? What does a transition from a product to an experience per...
Awards ceremony of the sixth edition of the Stories on Umbria Journalism Award, set up and managed by the Chambers of Commerce of Perugia and Terni. Keiran Mulvaney, Zong Beilei and Claudio Sampa...
A showcasing of the results of the Wikipedia hackathon (to be held at the Hotel Rosetta for the entire day of 17 April 2015 - info here). All participants will present their work. For more info and ...
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Millennials have their rules: they read news on their smartphones, live on social media, move between different countries regularly. Also, most European young people are facing the highest unem...
To hell with mass media. Journalism, properly conceived, is a service, not a content factory. As such, news must be built on relationships with individuals and communities, no longer a mass, helpin...
The launch of Code Red - taking the global anti-surveillance movement to the next level. In late 2014, a group of the world's most renowned privacy activists, whistleblowers, technologists and le...
Effective institutional health communication, the use of social media and apps, the digital culture within the public administration. A discussion with experts in the field. Social media and appl...
Telling stories to create emotion, sharing, gratitude, empathy, distributing content on different platforms, adapting it to the tool and the user. Telling stories to trigger a virtuous cycle with di...
Africa recounted by its protagonists.
Numbers, statistics and surveys accompany more and more the analysis in newspapers, but also in TV debates and talk shows. What are the rules to follow and things to know for those who produce the n...
Drones for journalism and general use: privacy issues vs freedom of information and of the press. The viewpoint allowed by drones, especially for journalistic purposes, is so disruptive that Lev Gr...
Quality journalism and activism seem to converge on the horizon of the current mediascape. The NSA, HSBC and Wikileaks files are few but bold examples of outstanding journalism deeply rooted in da...
Internet infrastructure, computer devices, and the daily operations of users have infrastructural weaknesses. These vulnerabilities influence everything; the communication with readers/users, the ma...
The frontiers of the freedom of expression after the tragic events of Charlie Hebdo. A cartoonist and two experts will consider the opposite points of view on the question of whether to impose limits...
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On the difficulties of navigating the Church and State separation of editorial and commercial, as shown by recent allegations about The Daily Telegraph and HSBC. In short, do media organisations large...
How content curation will deeply change journalism, education, learning and online information search as we know them today. In this workshop you will be able to see which are the key critical fact...
A growing number of tv talk shows in Italy and abroad are exploring the opportunity of making web conversation a strength of their format. To what extent can this be considered true "participation,"...
How can we use WhatsApp and other chat platforms in our newsrooms to improve audience engagement and dialogue with our sources? This workshop will provide an overview of several messaging apps, as w...
Digital devices (computers, smartphones etc) are an essential tool for journalists. These devices are however often subject to seizure as a result of criminal proceedings. The talk will examine the...
The panel will highlight the threats that climate change poses to global food production, as well as the power of smallholder farmers to adapt to a changing climate while meeting the world's food ne...
For several months the Islamic State, or ISIS, has been threatening the world with its violence and its plans of conquest. After seizing large areas of Syria and Iraq, and declaring, last June, the ...
Online empowerment platforms are enabling ordinary people to change the policies of elected officials and multinational companies -- from mayors, senators, and Presidents, to Google and Uber -- at a...
Transnational investigative journalism: 3 examples Three investigations, the IRPI-Correctiv-El Confidencial-Tages Anzeiger joint work The Wolves of Europe which uncovered a fraud of fake bonds perp...
Social networks and journalism: crisis management, information gathering, publication of news and related legal and professional ethics risks. Social networks represent a great opportunity for news...
"An international team of journalists with literally dozens of years’ worth of combined experience as online community organizers, storytellers and curators. We take pride in being active, engaged...
International organisations whose brief it is to defend journalists from oppressive regimes have long focused on Turkey as a country which imprisons individuals for the expression of unwelcome news ...
The online world is filled with misinformation and hoaxes. Fake news websites, government propaganda, Photoshopped images, fake social media accounts and unethical scientific journal publishers are ...
The Russian Constitution tells it straight: censorship is forbidden (Chapter 2, article 29.5). But during the last 15 years, Putin’s regime has worked hard to monopolize the media space. It has us...
Emotional proximity: journalism between brands and platforms - by Andrea Iannuzzi from International Journalism Festival
Is the golden age of the current affairs TV talk show now over? If so, what of the future of political debate on TV? Four leading figures in Italian TV talk shows will debate the issue, with Alessio...
Technology has significantly impacted three aspects of our society and, in particular, the legal and political world, which are closely related. These are the maintenance of confidentiality of cer...
This beginner-level talk will help attendees understand the various threats to their online privacy that they encounter each day, and basic ways to respond to those threats.
Learn how to make simple, interactive projects using Arduino hardware. We'll walk through a couple of easy projects to give you a feel for what's possible and show a few examples of what other news ...
Advocacy journalism has become a genre in itself, transparently adopting a partisan, yet factual viewpoint for social purposes. Organizations other than media outlets are recruiting journalists in ...
Sports journalism and women: a mix often made difficult by the prevailing machismo in this sector. Has the situation now changed or are we still far from reaching the coveted gender equality? And if...
Google, Facebook, and Twitter as global gatekeepers for digital news? Evidence and experiences from around the world. Search engines and social networking sites are important parts of the way in wh...
The shocking story of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa, who were killed, dismembered and burned in a mass grave, has attracted the world's attention once more to Mexico, which is still one of the most ...
This workshop is for journalists who wish to learn how to receive material from anonymous sources. During the workshop, the Hermes Study Centre will be at your disposal to enable you to test a par...
In the new reality of terrorism and propaganda on social media, the value of journalism as a means of separating news from noise has never been more vital. With militant groups using social media as...
As news organizations try to distinguish themselves in a crowded field, opinion takes on an increasingly important role. This panel will look at the spectrum of opinion - from news with a voice to a...
Il cineasta e il labirinto - The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth by Roberto Andò, Italy, 2002, 55'. The human, professional and artistic profile of Francesco Rosi, as told by one of his closest collab...
Radio news and entertainment: with a smile or with a scowl, depending on taste.
By invitation only. All festival speakers and their guests are cordially invited to drinks and stuzzichini (canapé-like nibbles). For the uninitiated: what exactly is the aperitivo?
No author in the history of Italian comics has had the reputation of Michele Rech, aka Zerocalcare. Many of the greatest talents from Hugo Pratt to Andrea Pazienza, from Crepax to Manara, and even G...
Beppe Severgnini in Life is a Journey With Marta Isabella Rizi and the musician and singer Elisabetta Spada Original music by Kiss & Drive Directed by Francesco Brandi Freely adapted from the ...
Screening of The look of silence by Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Indonesia, Finland, 2014, 98’). Through Joshua Oppenheimer’s work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian...
CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras (Germany, US, United Kingdom, 2014, 114’) CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura P...
How are media-making millennials influencing journalism, information exchange, and the job market? Five millennial women join forces - and their international experiences - to tackle this question. ...
Diversity management in the newsroom. International examples and data How many people in Italian newsrooms are of foreign origin? How many women, disabled people and those with different sexual ori...
Italy is a country where in order to open a blog it is necessary to obey a law dating from 1948, otherwise there is the risk of having to face a a criminal trial. We are a country where you cannot b...
Description to come. Organised by Ordine dei Giornalisti
Entrepreneurial journalism is a breath of fresh air in Spanish journalistic culture, transforming the media ecosystem creating a new agenda, promoting critical journalism content over infotainment a...
Floods in Pakistan? Let’s find out how much donor aid Pakistan receives for infrastructure each year. Corruption in the Palestinian Authority? We can calculate which ministry spends the most on wa...
In 2013 the Snowden revelations showed how digital communication can’t be considered safe by journalists dealing with whistleblowers and sources and underlined the need for better and stronger too...
Homophobia, bullying, civil rights, egalitarian marriage. How are the issues related to discrimination addressed in the media and what is the role played by social networks in 2015? How does the Ita...
Why is the economy given so little space on TV despite its enormous influence on public life and politics? What is it needed to make such a seemingly impenetrable subject popular on TV? Who are the ...
Description to come. Organized by the European Commission - Representation in Italy
The growing online presence of politicians and their habit of commenting on blogs and social media, combined with disproportionate attention from the media for such environments, has resulted in dan...
There’s a lot of talk nowadays about the deepweb, but what is it exactly? And what would you find once you got there? The deepweb is definitely more than just the famous Silkroad or similar websi...
What is the role of crime news in journalism today? How to build an investigative report? Above all, what is the societal relevance of such work? Giovanni Bianconi and Fiorenza Sarzanini of Corriere...
In Italy, those looking for innovation in journalism, especially digital, usually drink at the source of the Anglo-Saxon media. Therefore, the effect is that what happens very close to us, just beyo...
Do you want to become your own publisher? Do you believe that setting up a start-up is a great way to be a journalist today? You are right. However, ideas, a business plan, a statute and the right p...
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, Correc...
A smartphone can produce quality videos and photos, but its use for a journalist goes much beyond that. In a few minutes, it is possible to edit video and images at a semi-professional level, to o...
In the time of social networks and the crisis of print, what is happening to arts journalism? What are the consequences of shifting from newspaper Sunday supplements to websites, portals and special...
Presentation of the book L'amore che ti meriti by Daria Bignardi. In conversation with Gipi. How can love be both the most creative and the most destructive force? Antonia, a crime novelist who is ...
Angelo Agostini (1959-2014) was a leading figure in journalism studies and journalism training in Italy. He served for many years as editor of the thrice-yearly journalism review Problemi dell'infor...
There is not (yet) a Freedom of Information Act in Italy such as in the United States and in the United Kingdom, but the rules on access can be very useful to journalists and citizens. Diritto Di Sa...
Malware economics is evolving with the internet landscape and new market opportunities are emerging for former Malware authors. This talk will describe, where possible, malware authors’ goals and ...
Description to come. Organised by TIM.
To be broadcast live from the Sala dei Notari in Perugia, In mezz'ora with Lucia Annunziata, who will interview Giuliano Pisapia.
In a landscape dominated by narratives like House of Cards and snappy election-winning headlines, what is the position of those who confront, day in and day out, policy communication and electoral s...
Join our hands on data expedition and use the skills you acquired attending the School of Data Journalism workshops. We will look at a topic and work in small, diverse groups to produce stories and ...
This panel will discuss crowdfunding journalism projects by reviewing some of the successful experiences in the European context (decorrespondent.nl, krautreporter.de, contributoria.com). The Italia...
Description to come. Organised by the Ordine dei Giornalisti
Reportages from the Turkey/Syria border and from Iraq.
All the ingredients are there to make climate change a journalism workshop: obstacles, opportunities, risks, limitations, and the prospects of journalism that has to search for, find, and invent n...
The story of Mafia Capital; an unprecedented criminal system, which has dominated Rome with the complicity of politicians and institutions. A true story so incredible that it seems to be straight ou...
Description to come.
Screening of Il caso Mattei by Francesco Rosi, 1972, 110’. Combining news, documentary reconstruction and free evocation, Rosi made a film portrait of Enrico Mattei, the "most powerful Italian af...
Current news and news reports, both local and global - “glocal”, to use a word much in vogue nowadays - often lead journalists to avoid, like it or not, elements of daily life that are widesprea...
Following the success of the acclaimed Girlfriend In a Coma, director Annalisa Piras and former editor of The Economist Bill Emmott bring us a new, hard-hitting creative current-affairs documentar...
Taking as their starting point the book La Repubblica del selfie (2015) by Marco Damilano, the speakers will consider how the (Italian) media is adapting to the challenge of reporting on politics in t...
Description to come.
They are a cutting-edge band. Playing 200 concerts a year, many of them sold out, without going mainstream and participating at the Sanremo Music Festival (the most popular Italian song contest), be...
Description to come.
Slurp. Twenty years of unabashed arse-licking that have ruined Italy by and with Marco Travaglio with Giorgia Salari directed by Valerio Binasco In his new theatre show, Marco Travaglio - with t...
All festival volunteers welcome. After 5 days of hard work a well-earned opportunity to party at Il Birraio in Via Prome.
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