Unemployment among young people, especially in the southern countries of the European Union, has been rising for several years. Youth unemployment rates are now 50% in Greece, and over 35% in Italy,...

One of the most frequent activities of a journalist these days is the search for information on the web. The correlation of digital identities and traces of online users often cannot be performed ma...

Investigative journalism is an indispensable instrument of democracy. In Russia dozens of courageous journalists must deal with censure and threats on a daily basis in order to report what state med...

If you are a journalist who is always working on tight deadlines with little resources, this session is right for you. Award-winning data visualisation expert Gregor Aisch will give you an overview ...

What should information professionals do when activists replace journalists in the production of news? The dramatic conflict in Syria is a war fought on two fronts: military and media. The difficult...

When it comes to women in politics (like Hilary Clinton) some parts of the Western media still give a perhaps surprising amount of attention to the way they are dressed and the number of wrinkles on...

Before 2009 it was unthinkable that a journalist at a reputable publication could publish a single line of copy online without the approval of their editor. Today the majority of journalists are c...

How and why what you eat is a political act. From Eataly to the world. Oscar Farinetti in conversation with Giovanna Zucconi. Organised in association with UNICEF

Defamation and the press: latest news on the personal responsibility of the journalist and the editor, the investigative reporter, the cartoonist and political satire, from the "Sallusti case" to bl...

Dictators and oppressive regimes the planet over buy billions of dollars worth of digital surveillance technology from Western companies every year. Which results in direct violation of the human ri...