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...

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...

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...

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...

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...