The symbiosis of Italian journalism and politics is unmissable. Hence, for example, former PM Bettino Craxi's famed impatience towards reporters and current PM Matteo Renzi's notorious "speed" in extr...

How much does the legacy of 11 September affect the construction of the image of Islam by Western media? In an increasingly Islamophobic climate, it has become essential to acquire the necessary tools...

For almost two years Investigative Reporting Project Italy, in brief IRPI, has been experimenting new Italian models for investigative journalism. Among its main challenges are the search of a sustain...

Crimea is Russian once again. Sixty years after the "gift" of Nikita Khrushchev to the Ukraine, Moscow has annexed the strategic peninsula which it has always considered its own. Without a shot bein...

The Internet is like a public square and just as with every public square of our towns and cities there are people who discuss and interact peacefully and those who behave in an irresponsible, abusive...

The focus of the panel is on the central role that food plays - what we eat and how we produce it - in confronting many of the challenges humanity faces today. From hunger, poverty and instability to...

To honour World Press Freedom Day, the screening of Eric Matthies' acclaimed documentary Killing the Messenger: the Deadly Cost of News. Eric will provide an introduction to the making of the document...

A look back at the history of the weekly (La Voce) and the radio (Radio Umbria) of the Church of Umbria. A time for reflection also on how best to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the we...

Starting a platform for digital whistleblowing is far from simple. More and more international media are gearing up to provide an anonymous and interactive web "letterbox" with which journalistic sour...

Here are some among 31 questions on journalism: Can external contributions be trusted? Should the news be new? Can what is placed within quotation marks be invented? Has Twitter replaced news agencie...