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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...