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. ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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.

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...

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...