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...

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...

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...

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...

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...