No author in the history of Italian comics has had the reputation of Michele Rech, aka Zerocalcare. Many of the greatest talents from Hugo Pratt to Andrea Pazienza, from Crepax to Manara, and even G...

Advocacy journalism has become a genre in itself, transparently adopting a partisan, yet factual viewpoint for social purposes. Organizations other than media outlets are recruiting journalists in ...

For several months the Islamic State, or ISIS, has been threatening the world with its violence and its plans of conquest. After seizing large areas of Syria and Iraq, and declaring, last June, the ...

A growing number of tv talk shows in Italy and abroad are exploring the opportunity of making web conversation a strength of their format. To what extent can this be considered true "participation,"...

How can we use WhatsApp and other chat platforms in our newsrooms to improve audience engagement and dialogue with our sources? This workshop will provide an overview of several messaging apps, as w...

Effective institutional health communication, the use of social media and apps, the digital culture within the public administration. A discussion with experts in the field. Social media and appl...

The launch of Code Red - taking the global anti-surveillance movement to the next level. In late 2014, a group of the world's most renowned privacy activists, whistleblowers, technologists and le...

Awards ceremony of the sixth edition of the Stories on Umbria Journalism Award, set up and managed by the Chambers of Commerce of Perugia and Terni. Keiran Mulvaney, Zong Beilei and Claudio Sampa...

Millennials have their rules: they read news on their smartphones, live on social media, move between different countries regularly. Also, most European young people are facing the highest unem...

During the Wired Next Festival 2014 - the event mostly remembered for the blitz of taxi drivers against Uber Italy - it was explained, in a few hours, how a newsroom can be equipped with a new edito...