Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
Who's in and who's out Many Italian journalists have no job. Many others work as journalists but have no contract, no job security and not much hope of ever getting either. Talent. expertise, diligen...
Europe. Next question please How can the European Union become newsworthy? Among the solutions, the Window on Europe, an innovative and experimental project to communicate the EU. The project, set ...
Italian lifestyle as seen from China The Italian lifestyle, particularly food and wine and the role it has in Italian culture, as seen from the perspective of the Chinese media. Organised in assoc...
The environment and the web Construction and destructurisation of online news, taking as its starting point the Avoicomunicare project of Telecom Italia directed by Mario Tozzi and organised in ass...
Using a mobile phone for reporting A mobile phone is an essential reporting tool for journalists. Find out about the best apps and workflows for producing digital content on the road. Organised ...
Journalists in exile Journalists and their families forced to flee their homeland in fear of their lives for having had the effrontery to tell the truth. It’s an all-too-familiar story. But what ha...
Italy: love it or leave it Fall in love (again) with Italy or leave? Like so many other young, talented and ambitious Italians have done recently, frustrated by the lack of suitable opportunities. ...
Perugia. Highly recommended The historic town centre of Perugia is very easy on the eye. It is also, allegedly, the backdrop for a relatively diffuse light drug trade. Is this merely yet another grea...
Periodical free press: hope or despair? What’s happening with the periodical free press in Italy? Is it still a sustainable form of journalism? Does it offer avenues for development in the future...
Local news as social hub Journalism at the local level has been reinvigorated by the web. The sharing of news and opinions with a narrow focus on issues of interest and concern to citizens in the...
Down memory lane: 50 years of Italian journalism Gianni Minà in conversation with Gennaro Carotenuto. To the backdrop of clips from the RAI archives, including some of Gianni’s interviews with per...
Webdocs: a new way of telling a story Webdocs provide almost endless scope for creative storytelling. The overlap between video, photos, text and audio is one feature. The potential for interactivi...
Independent economic media The Western world has been living through a so-called financial crisis since 2008. But what really is going on? And how is public opinion supposed to make sense of it all...
Telling a story with a videocamera: 2.0 video reportage The idea: what to film The preparation: how to choose people, times, places The filming: how to get the job done The writing: narrative la...
JournalACTIVists: when news and human rights go hand in hand Some 50 years on from the founding of Amnesty International, bringing attention to human rights abuses has never been more important. The ...
Power in Italy Power politics is a tautology. Well, maybe. What is not in doubt is the limpet-like grip Italian politicians of all colours have on positions of power. This year marks the 20th anniv...
Little media on the rise Italy is experiencing a boom of media agencies, cooperatives and journalistic ventures of many different stripes. Small, nimble and new-media-centric, do they represent the...
Women and the media Jill Abramson is the editor of The New York Times. But the editors of leading Western newspapers are still predominantly middle-aged white men, while women account for just a th...
Remembering Falcone and Borsellino Twenty years ago the Italian judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, together with Mrs Falcone and members of their police escorts, were murdered by the maf...
The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will be in conversation with Concita De Gregorio about her New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns, just...
Recounting violence: in journalism and on the big screen The film ACAB. All cops are bastards (2012) by Stefano Sollima, the book ACAB. All cops are bastards (2009) by Carlo Bonini on which it is b...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio RAI 1 morning news and current affairs programme Radio Anch’io presented by Ruggero Po. Interviews with festival speakers will feature.
The spring of Mohamed Bouazizi Screenings of docu-films for school children. This year’s theme is Wars and revolutions. The spring of Mohamed Bouazizi by Raffaele Masto and Stefano Vergine. Org...
War reporting - how not to get killed Rigorous planning is a must for any journalist who intends to cover a war zone or an area experiencing major unrest. The quality of work produced, not to menti...
The Sky effect. Impact of paytv on the Italian economy Presentation of a research paper by the Istituto di Economia dei Media (IEM) of the Rosselli Foundation on the evolution of the Italian TV sec...
J-schools, K-rations, L-plates An Italian take on Italian institutions. All is not necessarily well in the Italian J-school realm. Organised in association with Associazione Giornalisti Scuola di ...
Duties & rights The Italian Constitution guarantees the right of Italian citizens to receive information without censorship. But is it right for journalists, in the name of press freedom, to dr...
Sourcing global stories through social media On platforms like Twitter and Facebook, journalists can now find witnesses and sources for almost any major news event. But how can you be sure that...
ebooks: the new frontier of quality journalism? Many media companies are taking the opportunity offered by ebooks to expand the range of their journalistic output with instant books, collections of a...
E-government in Italy E-government, transparency and open data within the public administration. A consideration of the current situation in Italy.
This year marks the Columbia Journalism Review's 50th anniversary, and in the anniversary issue CJR online editor Justin Peters edited a section that looked ahead to the next fifty years of news. Ne...
Matador: two anchormen unanchored How has Italian television journalism changed over the past 20 years? The two television journalists who arguably have had the greatest impact on Italian politics ...
From technology to form&content to understanding In contemporary society the word technology is undergoing a change and we are currently embracing multiple languages. The biggest challenge o...
Precision journalism and Pulitzer prizes Precision journalism means the use of computer software and social science techniques like statistics to bring evidence, not just anecdotes, to reporting. Two...
Is news now feminine? Are we living through a sea-change in the very nature of news? Are collective endeavour, exchange, custody of memory, creative contagion and reputation beginning to take the ...
From print to digital media: how news publishing has changed The news publishing business model and the way content is used have undergone radical change in the past few years. Time to take stock and...
The mafia in Umbria The penetration of organised crime into the oasis of Umbria has been underway for years yet local public opinion is largely unaware of it. The book La mafia in Umbria by Claudio...
Digital Heretics The Digital Heretics journalism award invites entries of innovative online investigative journalism on any subject. The work must have been published in 2011 and can be in Italian ...
What a bunch of wasters! Italy wallows in a bubble-bath of public debt. Yet take the A1, the nation’s most important transport artery (the only motorway which directly links the capital Rome with t...
Migrants, immigrants, illegal immigrants Migrants, immigrants, illegal immigrants. The difference is substantial but not always clearly elucidated in the media. Italy is in the front line regardin...
Let me tell you about my latest trip... "Here are my photos of me and Molly at the airport. And here are my photos of the English Channel from the plane window....." Never again! The workshop will co...
Crises and participatory journalism Best practice to improve the quality, reach, and credibility of local news through citizen involvement. From major crises to minor daily issues. Examples from...
After phone-hacking: cleaning up journalism The phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News International has led to a wide-ranging inquiry by Lord Leveson into the ethics of the British press. ...
Free press. Hear all about it! Metro is the most widely-read free daily newspaper in the world. Published in over 100 cities in 22 countries and on 4 continents, it is read by more than 17 million pe...
Le cose che ho imparato Gianni Riotta, former editor of the Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore and former director of RAI 1 News, recounts in his 2011 book Le cose che ho imparato (The things I have lea...
Asinara revolution On 24 February 2010 the workers of Vinyls in Sardinia occupied the nearby former maximum security prison of Asinara to protest against the closure of their factory. They began a ...
Political journalism in a tweet Revolutions are the supernovas of politics. And the Twitter (and sms) revolution in political communication over the past 6 months or so in Italy has had its co(s)mic...
Geek Nation by Angela Saini Geek Nation: how Indian science is taking over the world by Angela Saini was published globally in spring 2011. It hit the top of the non-fiction bestseller lists in Ind...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to questio...
Newspaper as political party With the alleged decline of political parties on the Continent, have some newspapers and/or news websites become a conduit for political protagonism? If so, where’s t...
Just(ice) in Italy A discussion on living conditions in Italian prisons, including a viewing of the documentary Giustamente - Se vuoi conoscere la civiltà del tuo Paese devi visitare le sue carcer...
Blogs. Didn’t they disappear with the dodo? Born some 15 years ago, blogs have played a key role in democratising news and opinion. But since the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, has writing a blog...
Giuseppe D’Avanzo and investigative journalism “A journalistic investigation is the patient labour to bring to light the facts, to show them in their uncoercible force and in their harshness. G...
Humanitarian organizations and the press. A rocky relationship? The media devotes a huge amount of time and space to crime news and political rumours. And relatively little to important global issues...
Terrorism, fundamentalism, integralism, integration A discussion of terrorism and associated issues. The panel will take as its starting point the book Un istante prima. Come è cambiato il terrorism...
Right or wrong? Truth or falsehood? The rules of scientific logic applied to news. From an erroneous belief to an incorrect piece of news to a blatant lie. To treat politics in the same way as the ...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio 24 no-holds-barred news and current affairs phone-in talk show La Zanzara presented by Giuseppe Cruciani. Interviews with festival speakers will feature. ...
New webtv: from log-in to check-in There’s just no stopping webtv. But webtv companies will need to evolve swiftly in order to survive: from intimations of immortality to declinations of interact...
Gross Mafional Product Organised crime in Italy is big business. Once considered a largely southern phenomenon, the mafia and other similar organised crime groups have allegedly expanded their activi...
Offside! Italian football has occasionally been accused of lack of transparency, financial mismanagement, conflict of interest, match-fixing, overt racism, tax evasion, bribery, omertà and boring ...
Social and political engagement via rock music The Italian rock band Il Teatro degli Orrori succeeds perhaps more than any other in mixing political and social engagement with rock music. Luca Valt...
Kony2012: 100 million views online. Conclusions? Kony 2012, the controversial 30-minute video produced by the non-profit association Invisible Children, which in the space of a little more than a w...
Food and power “Today we’ve made history, now let’s go and eat!” said the Count of Cavour on 26 April 1859 having just declared war on Austria. Italian politics and food have always been clos...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Mobile for the multimedia journalist The power of your mobile phone goes beyond point and click recording. You'll learn how to make your mobile device your number one tool. Organised in associatio...
Broadcast live from the festival, the RAI Radio 1 morning news and current affairs programme Radio Anch’io presented by Ruggero Po. Interviews with festival speakers will feature.
The who’s who of Italian journalism on Twitter Who are the top Italian journalists on Twitter? And who are the top users of Twitter in Italian who are also journalists? How do they use Twitter? L...
Tunisian brothers Screenings of docu-films for school children. This year’s theme is Wars and revolutions. Tunisian brothers of Presadiretta by Raffaella Pusceddu and Vincenzo Guerrizio. Organi...
How to use social media to build audiences and create community The majority of news organisations now understand the power of social media for driving audiences to their output and most have twi...
An entertaining and irreverent review of the day’s newspapers with Alessandro Capriccioli and Francesca Fornario.
Digital journalism and (new) rights - Defamation, trolling, hate speech and harmful content New technology has resulted in new types of discussion around online news, often not strictly related to ...
The new civic journalism How can new technologies be used to provide public interest journalism? Is WikiLeaks and social media the way to hold power to account through the internet? Heather Brooke, t...
Images of children: use and abuse. Which images? And which children? Children are not equal, and above all not equally treated, not even as far as the use of photos is concerned. Children who live ...
The Global Editors Network (GEN) and the European Journalism Centre (EJC) will announce the 30 shortlisted entries for the 2012 edition of the Data Journalism Awards (DJA). The announc...
Economic crisis and youth unemployment: towards a European governance? European youth unemployment is rocketing. According to the latest European Commission employment report (March 2012), 1.6 millio...
Are lawyers killing investigative journalism? Once upon a time investigative journalists had only to fear the physical violence of military men or organised crime. Those dangers remain, but today i...
Democracy, media and power in the age of knowledge Keynote speech by Stefano Rodotà. Introduction by Luca De Biase.
Presentation of Etalia Etalia is a web-based platform which aims to transform the consumption and production of news by focusing on the interests of the user. The online services of Etalia allow th...
Digital journalism and (new) rights - Copyright issues in digital journalism The advent of the digital allows both the indiscriminate and the discriminating use of the content of others. Journalis...
Stories on Umbria Journalism Award Awards ceremony of the third edition of the Stories on Umbria Journalism Award, set up and managed by the Chambers of Commerce of Perugia and Terni. The award in...
How the media deal with the nuclear question 26 April is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. One year ago was the Fukushima nuclear accident. How has the media dealt with the complex...
You, the Mobile Journalist Mobile internet, smartphones and tablets have significantly increased the range of possibilities for news-making and news-reporting, opening up entirely new avenues of ...
The sky-blue empire. Is China changing? The particularities of the Chinese economy, China’s investment strategy overseas and a broader consideration of the remarkable economic and cultural changes ...
More social responsibility more often How can companies and the media become more socially responsible and in so doing support the work of NGOs? To be followed by a P&G case history on the st...
Broadcast live from the festival, the RAI Parlamentary News weekly broadcast Spazio Europa with news and views presented by Tiziana Di Simone.
Towards 2030: transparency, responsibility and dialogue. How to comunicate the challenges the world faces in order to avoid the “perfect storm” Beginning with an analysis of the most pressing c...
Firewalls Are firewalls essential self-defence mechanisms or Trojan horses? Is so-called secure data transfer really so secure? An insight into how vulnerable your data might be. Workshops are f...
News in a networked world Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will discuss his project’s latest findings about how people use the internet, s...
You, the Mobile Journalist Mobile internet, smartphones and tablets have significantly increased the range of possibilities for news-making and news-reporting, opening up entirely new avenues of in...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
The Arab Spring: an incomplete revolution? Was the Arab Spring a revolution? And is it incomplete? Time to take stock. Organised in association with Associazione Giornalisti Scuola di Perugia ...
Social media: how to leverage the power of online citizens The intersection of real world connectivity with online and youth culture is a sweet spot for generating empowerment on a wholly new scale...
The euro and the mass media The panel will take as its starting point the special issue of Limes on the role and impact of the mass media, which will be published on 26 April 2012. The euro and h...
This year marks the Columbia Journalism Review's 50th anniversary, and in the anniversary issue CJR online editor Justin Peters edited a section that looked ahead to the next fifty years of news. Near...
Quality information and information of quality Ascertaining the quality and reliability of online information is not easy, whether for a large media organisation such as the Gruppo L'Espresso or for ...
European democracy and the rebirth of extremism The recent mutation of the role of the nation-state has had many consequences, one of which is the emergence of an array of xenophobic European polit...
The talk show in the age of Monti The age of Berlusconi saw the Italian TV current affairs talk show become just that: a show. Endless burble, plenty of self-promotion, little substance, formulaic ho...
Visual news and new media Visual news and new media: the press agency ANSA and the challenge of Twitter, Facebook, mobile phones and iPads. How best to adapt to the new demands of the media marketp...
Beyond the Huff Post. European media startup success stories In the last few years Europe has seen a nouvelle vague of independent journalistic start-ups. Following in the footsteps of The Huffingt...
All-news channels. Albert Camus would have approved “The journalist is the historian of the moment” said Albert Camus. A neat definition of all-news channels, which have the potentially onerous t...
National Health Communication, New Media and Information award Awards ceremony of the second edition of the National Health Communication, New Media and Information award. The award is organised by...
Health policy: from theory to practice On how to integrate health criteria into all public policy decision-making. Livia Azzariti journalist Eva Benelli Zadig Emilio Duca director Direzione Regi...
Wiretaps and "webtaps" Who can tap what and how? From the near impossibility of ensuring secure phone calls to the ease of ensuring near secure web communications. A romp through security, technolo...
Dentists, doctors, psychiatrists. And journalists? Among other curiosities of Italian life is the professional association of journalists entitled the Ordine dei Giornalisti. Accountants, architects,...
The future of democracy The current economic crisis has brought with it a crisis in representative democracy. When “serious economic problems” are used to justify the unceremonious removal of d...
Humanitarian emergencies: are journalists still necessary? Wars, famine, displacement camps; at times the traditional media find it hard to get there. Why? Whose responsibility is it to tell the wo...
Free tools for digital journalists Take a whirlwind tour of free tools that will let you stream live video, edit digital photos, become a social media power user, create HTML charts, analyze sear...
How influential are the influencers? To what extent are social media opinion leaders able to dictate the agenda? - to both their (non-professional) audiences and their (professional) online and offli...
The Italian secondary school system: overall grade C- Many young Italians abandon education at the earliest possible opportunity. One in five fails to get even the basic leaving-school diploma. The...
Tweeting the Arab Spring: capturing history, 140 characters at a time Keynote speech by Andy Carvin. Introduction by Carlo Antonelli.
School newspapers get-together Annual 3-day get-together of Italian school newspapers. A total of 28 schools from 14 different regions will be represented. Some 130 budding journalists will undress t...
The role of the columnist in print media Sandro Petrollini and Giovanni Picuti intervview Michele Cucuzza. Sandro Petrollini writes the Penumbria column of the Umbrian regional daily Corriere dell...
Ethical hacking There’s a war on and it won’t be won by who has the most bombs. Ethical hacking in the raw. Workshops are free entry but registration is required. Each workshop will have a l...
Forgotten L’Aquila On 06 April 2009 an earthquake destroyed much of the Italian town of L’Aquila. Thousands were injured, 309 people died. The beautiful historic centre is still a ghost town, c...
Un dollaro al giorno They number over a billion yet they remain largely hidden, emerging rarely into Western consciousness only in the fine words of some political leader. They are the people who liv...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Interview of Ezio Mauro, editor of the Italian daily la Repubblica, including questions from the audience-at-large via Twitter. The hashtags to participate are #ijf12 #mauro. Moderated by Arianna Ci...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio 24 no-holds-barred news and current affairs phone-in talk show La Zanzara presented by Giuseppe Cruciani. Interviews with festival speakers will feature. ...
The best of the best of online journalism worldwide Some of the projects that won the 2011 Online Journalism Awards will be showcased. The awards, launched in May 2000 to honour excellence in digi...
Civic activism and information: the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and beyond Is social struggle, whether aimed at toppling an oppressive regime or radically changing the political agenda within a W...
Whistleblowers and anonymous leaks: can the media do without them? Whistleblowing is on the increase, with Wikileaks the tip of the iceberg and with traditional journalism heaving hard in the effo...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio Capital news and current affairs talk show TG Zero presented by Vittorio Zucconi and Edoardo Buffoni. Interviews with festival speakers will feature. ...
If the Italy of Mario Monti were a film: Mary Poppins, Twilight or The Descendants? With the new technocratic government of Mario Monti, Italy is presenting itself to the world in a new way. But wh...
The most beautiful city in the universe “I am leaving. I shall not forget Via Toledo, nor any other of the parts of Naples; to my eyes this city has no equal and is the most beautiful city in the...
Tabula rasa 1992-2012: 20 years in which the Italian left lost (itself) When and why did the Italian left begin to lose (itself)? When and why might the Italian left begin to win (back its identity)?
Broadcast live from the festival, the RAI Radio 1 weekly news and current affairs programme Voci dal mondo presented by Gabriella Lepre.
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio 24 news, current affairs, arts and sport discussion programme Punto a Capo presented by Gigi Donelli.
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
School newspapers get-together Annual 3-day get-together of Italian school newspapers. A total of 28 schools from 14 different regions will be represented. Some 130 budding journalists will undress t...
Libya and the kids of the revolution Screenings of docu-films for school children. This year’s theme is Wars and revolutions. Libya and the kids of the revolution by Gian Micalessin and Francesca...
DataCamp 2012. Open data, journalists and readers The Associazione Italiana per l’Open Government has organised DataCamp 2012, with the aim of bringing together public institutions, developers ...
Broadcast live from the festival, the RAI Radio 1 weekly broadcast In Europa with news and views on Europe presented by Umberto Broccoli e Tiziana Di Simone.
Digital journalism and (new) rights - Secrecy, confidentiality and privacy In his work a journalist can rely on a series of guarantees which cover the secrecy of sources while being obliged to resp...
Broadcast live from the festival, the Radio 24 European culture and current affairs talk show L’Altra Europa presented by Federico Taddia. The programme is produced in association with the Europea...
An entertaining and irreverent review of the day’s newspapers with Giuseppe Cruciani, David Parenzo and Luca Telese.
Investigative journalism and crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing can produce remarkable results for investigative journalism. Paul Lewis of The Guardian will illustrate some of the ways he and his newspape...
Non-sports news in a sports newspaper The leading Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport is published every day with a pull-out section (printed on a different colour paper) entitled Altri Mo...
Journalistic investigations and minors Massimo Razzi (repubblica.it) and Valeria Teodonio (repubblica.it) explain how journalists plan their investigations: topic selection, information collection,...
SustainaBEERity Innovation, quality and … hops: Carlsberg’s magic formula to make Italy grow Can a model to create value and shared benefits be inspired by malt and barrel? Innovation and sust...
Presentation of Storify Burt Herman, co-founder of Storify, will discuss his social storytelling platform that was launched less than two years ago and is now used by top news organizations, brands...
Julian Assange: from hacker to Wikileaks Wikileaks came to worldwide prominence on 05 April 2010 when it released the video entitled Collateral Murder of about a dozen Iraqi civilians and two Reute...
Cloud computing - the hows and whys Cloud computing has been the flavour of the month for a while now. The objective of this workshop is to clarify matters in a practical, interactive way. What is ...
Musical journalism in the post-MySpace era How the web has transformed the relationship between new and/or well-established musical performers and the media. Once upon a time up-and-coming bands se...
Gamification. Play time! Newsgames have introduced a radically new way of communicating the news and grabbing the attention of the reader/user. Find out more from our panel of experts.
The economic sustainability of digital journalism: problems and prospects New media is here to stay but an efficient business model to adequately pay who produces online content has yet to be found...
Integral Media: the future of mass media in the age of social networks Keynote speech by Wadah Khanfar. Introduction by Francesca Caferri.
Energy challenges and European geopolitics The European Union currently imports 80% of its petrol and 60% of its gas requirements. Alternative energy sources, even within the parameters set by the Ho...
Towards an Italian FOIA Italy has no Freedom of Information Act (or similar). The new Diritto di Sapere project seeks to highlight the need for major reform of the law on the right of access to inf...
i-phonography and the news: Instagram (and others) Reporting is getting more and more visual and on the go. Instagram, with over 15 million members, is now being used by news outlets t...
How sensitive you are! - Data is sensitive: learn how to keep it safe and send it safely How much do you know about your webmail, social network accounts and pendrives? How secure are they? Who oth...
Errors, lies, damned lies and the media How many times have journalists come across a breaking news story that is totally at odds with what they are witnessing first-hand in the field? Particularly...
From bits to Pulitzer: when journalism in the public interest scores a scoop When bit met data sparks did fly. Introducing journalists and software engineers, or more broadly journalism and advanced ...
International politics by crowdsourcing? Shock new international alliance: diplomats and journalists and (global) citizens Planet 2.0 has resulted in diplomats and journalists having to enter into ...
The tortoise and the hare – there’s hope yet Four out of ten Italian families don’t have access to internet, Italy is in fourth-to-last place in Europe as regards broadband provision, e-comme...
Fact checking and civic media. True or false news? The first example in Italy of civic media focused on fact-checking. A website offering citizens the possibility to highlight for collective verifi...
Deliquescence? The fall of Silvio Berlusconi wasn’t just a dramatic, and unexpected, political upheaval. It also had major implications for the Italian media marketplace. In particular, will the RA...
repubblica.it: from theory to practice What happens on the other side of the computer screen? Passion, victory, defeat and 24/7 adrenalin. A workshop with Giuseppe Smorto who for eight full years ...
The Great Game From the image offered in the piazza to the elaboration of multicultural thought. Palermo 2012 Documentation collected from across the world by the Sole Luna Festival covers the pri...
More anonymity more often, Sir? Tails is a simple way of guaranteeing anonymous web connections able to circumvent censorship. Yet it's nothing more than a CD with a Linux operating system. Using i...
Digital and social publishing Today netizens and activists are producing a wealth of first-hand storytelling and content. How can such content be best re-broadcast offline? Is it possible to create...
What could possibly go wrong? The crisis of the eurozone: what’s caused it, what’s happening, what’s going to happen? How has the media fared in describing the crisis and the way(s) to overco...
Techniques of dissidence and digital repression The fight for online freedom of expression is conducted using the same weapons that authoritarian regimes employ in trying to suppress it. A fight in...
I wanted to be the new Rimbaud and look at me now Aspirations to the sublime and the reality of the daily grind. Ruminations on writing, journalism, life and more.
School newspapers get-together Annual 3-day get-together of Italian school newspapers. A total of 28 schools from 14 different regions will be represented. Some 130 budding journalists will undress t...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
Images of revolution "Images are like weapons. They can help topple a regime." Ali al-Bouazizi, political analyst. The uprisings that have shaken the Arab world were galvanised by photographs and v...
The economy and the local press The economy as described by the local press. Does the local economic news microcosm trump the macroeconomic trends so beloved of the national press when it comes to ...
Cybercrime 21st-century computing crime. From hacking as a lark to hacking as organised crime: tales to tell from the digital underground. A brief overview of recent hacking history, including fam...
This year marks the Columbia Journalism Review's 50th anniversary, and in the anniversary issue CJR online editor Justin Peters edited a section that looked ahead to the next fifty years of news. Near...
Digital journalism beyond today's news: whatever became of weeklies? It looked at one point as if journalism on the web could and should only be offered in quick, short bursts. We are instead discove...
The world saved by/from journalists Keynote speech by Luca Sofri. Introduction by Marino Sinibaldi.
Diario dall'Afghanistan To celebrate the 40th year of his journalism career, Ettore Mo has written the book Diario dall'Afghanistan which recounts his many years of reporting from Afghanistan. He f...
The value of lobbying for democracy and growth in Italy Lobbying in many countries is a trasparent, regulated activity which is recognized as a necessary and indeed healthy part of the democratic p...
Real-time news curation - how to set up, create and curate a topic-specific newsradar What are the “steps”, the best practices and tools to curate a real-time newsradar on a s...
News reporting and social media curation The Arab Spring and similar events have revealed the importance of social media in any information flow. Online news outlets are integrating collaborative too...
Oh my God that’s awful! Turn the volume up The coverage of murders and disappearances gets disproportionate air time on Italian TV. Is this demand-led or supply-led? Has all the accompanying jour...
Journalists and their communities: dinner won’t be served at 18.30 The relationship between journalists and their readers has changed. Once upon a time journalists wrote and readers read. Nowaday...
The Manuale di giornalismo by Alessandro Barbano and Vincenzo Sassu has just been published. It is a major overview of the state of play of journalism right now, in Italy and elsewhere. A door-stopp...
Hacks&Hackers Italy: here we go! First ever get-together of Hacks&Hackers in Italy. And who better to kick it all off than two H&H founders, Burt Herman and Aron Pilhofer? This is neith...
Music and Words The singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa sings for UNICEF Italy in a show with Giovanna Zucconi in support of the campaign on child mortality Vogliamo Zero (We want Zero). Organise...
Dossier Wikileaks: Italian secrets. By those on the inside We are convinced there isn’t democracy where there are archives full of unconfessable truths - Julian Assange The facts that have been hi...
Work for free—that’s the new mantra spreading across the globe. It’s a virus—and it’s a great threat to the viability of journalists as a working profession, particularly to independent, f...
Caparezza: ironically yours On the frequently misunderstood use of irony in the songs of Caparezza (aka Michele Salvemini) to analyse Italy from a social and political perspective. And less. Organis...
How TV has changed: social networks and new formats of politics on TV Is social TV (where the viewers interact via Twitter, instant polls, etc) the end of politics on TV as we know it or the clarion ...
Sorelle di Zaynab A documentary on female Egyptian activists whose lives have been transformed by recent events and the radical new possibilities for communication, organisation and news provided by ...
The iGod demystified Apple is on its way to becoming a $1 trillion company. Its influence is everywhere, from journalism to design. But is it an exceptional company that "thinks different" or just ...
School newspapers get-together Annual 3-day get-together of Italian school newspapers. A total of 28 schools from 14 different regions will be represented. Some 130 budding journalists will undress t...
News website editorial meeting What content goes into a news website? In what order? With what emphasis? How to balance breaking news with with already-programmed analysis and comment? The editor o...
From journalist to political spokesman. Rather you than me or rather me than you? "I could do better than that!" he/she said bitterly on watching an erstwhile fellow journalist fielding press confe...
Transnational investigative journalism The panel will show how cross-border investigations done by international teams of journalists can expose corruption and crime. Three examples have been chosen....
Future12: your idea in 12 minutes This year the festival inaugurates a session dedicated to start-ups. Future12 is an opportunity to present new projects in the fields of social media, digital new...
Information design and the data-ink ratio - online news formatting for maximum legibility, understanding and scanability What are the best practices to format and lay out? News inform...
An entertaining and irreverent review of the day’s newspapers with Vittorio Zucconi.
Entrepreneurial journalism: reinventing the business of news As the traditional media is forced into cutting jobs and content, more journalists are looking for other ways to practice their...
Europe: the death or rebirth of politics? Economic crisis, national elections, the pressure of nationalist political parties, mixed with the difficulty of certain member states in giving up part ...
Spaghetti comics: the good, the bad and the ugly New ways of telling a story. Organised in association with Mamma!
A Story Still to Tell: Mauro Rostagno The annual A Story Still to Tell award invites the submission of short articles and/or videos on the circumstances surrounding the murder of an Italian journal...
Eat Parade and eco-gastronomic journalism The book Eat Parade e il giornalismo eco-gastronomico by Bruno Gambacorta provides a useful starting point for a discussion on food and wine with particula...
Prize for young journalists from Italian Journalism Schools The prize is awarded each year to young journalists who have raised awareness of issues related to the EU. It is promoted by the European...
School newspapers get-together Annual 3-day get-together of Italian school newspapers. A total of 28 schools from 14 different regions will be represented. Some 130 budding journalists will undress t...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
It’s now or never How to put together and sell a TV report to national networks and the web. And how to make the right name for yourself. The media marketplace Can I? Yes you can. Start this...
Online conversation and open journalism Public debates on current socio-political topics are mostly taking place online, where experts and citizens can often play a more equal role. How to ensure t...
Capitani coraggiosi The economic and social decline of Italy encapsulated in the stories of the businessmen, bankers, lobbyists and numerous others involved in one particular episode, the 2008 so...
New forms of journalism The video as background, the newspaper available only on the smartphone, the interactive poll with TV viewers, the web-only in-depth report. Are we ready for the new profess...
Spaghetti comics: Italian graphic journalism and the self-production phenomenon The challenge of the web to traditional media is opening doors to cartoons and news illustrations as a new form of jo...
This year marks the Columbia Journalism Review's 50th anniversary, and in the anniversary issue CJR online editor Justin Peters edited a section that looked ahead to the next fifty years of news. Near...
Behind the big stories at l'Espresso A behind-the-scenes run-through of some of the most famous scoops and investigations of the Italian weekly l’Espresso.
Captain, get back on board for **** sake! How the sinking of the cruise ship Costa Concordia on 13 January 2012 off the coast of Tuscany was represented in the media. To be followed by a viewing o...
Laugh 2.0 The web is a winter wonderland for satire: inviting, invigorating, an all-too-familiar landscape suddenly transformed. Come along and have a laugh.
Justice and power Two new books - L'innocenza di Giulio (Chiarelettere) and Assalto alla Giustizia (Editore Melampo) - to try to answer the question of whether Italy can ever be a normal country, ...
The arts supplement: decline and fall? Tucked in between the society and sports pages, the once-revered arts supplement now faces an uncertain future. Will longish articles on interesting backwaters ...
You'd be crazy not to hire me! Meet up with l'Espresso for aspiring journalists Calling all young/aspiring journalists: 5 minutes for each of you to convince l’Espresso editor Bruno Manfellotto a...
Yes we could! Four years ago the world watched agog as Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America. Four years on, world attention is focused elsewhere. Athens (Greece, not G...
Public office for personal enrichment? The 1992 so-called Mani pulite judicial investigation into political corruption dramatically swept out of office much of the Italian political establishment. ...
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