Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 news analysis morning show Voci del Mattino presented by Paolo Salerno. Festival speakers will take part.
Session for final-year students of the Liceo Galeazzo Alessi in Perugia, to be followed during the course of the festival by additional events on similar topics. Description to come. Speakers: Pa...
This workshop is inspired by the project of European communication entitled Finestra sull'Europa, which is an experimental program developed at the University of Perugia and La Sapienza University ...
This is a session to learn the main tools and methods to collect, organize, enrich and analyze data. Data journalists of the Dataninja School will provide practical examples to enable participants t...
The panel will consider the case of the Umbrian regional newspaper Il Giornale dell’Umbria: the recent transfer of ownership, the collapse in copies sold due to controversial editorial choices, th...
The Snowden revelations delineated new frontiers in the world of intelligence and cyber-security. This session will analyse the so-called Datagate Affair (NSA scandal) and the recent happenings in K...
This session gives you an introduction into how to do investigative work. How do you get an idea to work on, shape your hypothesis, think about documents and freedom of information requests as well ...
Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...
The protection of sources is one of the foundations of a journalist’s work. Not surprisingly, it is the law itself that establishes a legal protection so that the journalist is allowed not to disc...
Fabio Caressa and Beppe Bergomi form one of the most celebrated commentating duos in Italian sport. They will recount how TV football commentary has evolved, from the 2006 World Cup to the 2016 Euro...
Sometimes we find the data we need only to realise they are scattered across dozens or hundreds of Excel reports, divided by year, month etc. They have the same structure, they're could be even nice...
Genetically modified crops, also called transgenic plants or GMO, have been in existence for over thirty years and have been used in agriculture for more than twenty years. They now represent more t...
According to a study by Forrester Research, a one-minute video has the same communication effectiveness as about 1.8 million words. Cisco has estimated that by 2019 Internet will be inundated with a...
How IRPI conducted an international investigation working with 15 victims of sexual violence after the story was leaked to reporters. The story, nicknamed "the couchsurfing rapist" was published in ...
How journalism deals with cases of suicide. The session will consider the following issues; how best to report on a suicide, the choice of details to be provided, the use of images, the verificatio...
Awards ceremony of the Premio "InFormazione" - Nunzio Bassi 2016. With Enzo Arceri, AGSP, and Roberto Conticelli, president of the Umbrian Association of Journalists. Organised by the Associazion...
The arrival of the TV cameras, the search for the culprit(s), the media trial; they all affect the economic and social life of the location where a crime takes place. Despite the crisis of mainstrea...
The ENAC Regulation on drones, in its latest draft, regulates "microdrones" i.e. drones with take-off weight of no more than 300 grams, with protection for the rotors and a maximum speed not exceedi...
The research project Less Hate, More Speech implements a field experiment in comment moderation on major mainstream media sites in Romania. The media partners are Gsp.ro – one of the biggest news ...
This presentation focuses on innovative tools for focusing and structuring television features and certain documentaries. Participants will learn classic storytelling devices for telling strong tel...
When award winning OCCRP journalist Khadija Ismayilova was arrested in Azerbaijan in December 2014, she asked her colleagues to finish her work. Under OCCRP’s direction, more than two dozen repor...
What are the fine lines between advocacy and journalism? Is WikiLeaks really an enrichment or is it propaganda? Is crowdfunding fostering independent journalism or is it giving the rich people an ad...
The purpose of this masterclass is to provide journalists as well as journalism students with the know-how to use Twitter and Periscope for their daily work. The participants will be walked through ...
Open online education and especially MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are a recent trend in (journalism) education. What are the challenges? Torial Academy, hosted by the journalism platform tor...
Sports journalism is changing very rapidly. Twenty years ago, radio and print media played the starring role in journalism. Then there was the era of television. Still, the future - actually, the pr...
Here’s your menu: data-driven reporting, crowdmapping, social media, online petitions, whistleblowing platforms. Choose one, some or all of them. How best to involve citizens (and indeed other jou...
How do you clean and analyse datasets in order to be transparent about your investigation and methodologies? Documenting your steps in a clean and computationally reproducible way is easy with tools...
Information warfare, drone warfare, new electronic military and geopolitical equilibria: fantasy and reality. The issues of electronic warfare between nations, the use of drones for military action...
Alberto Angela presents his latest book entitled San Pietro. Segreti e meraviglie in un racconto lungo duemila anni (Rizzoli, 2015).
What is the truth behind the murder of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni? He disappeared in Cairo on 26 January 2016 and was found dead a week later, with unmistakable signs of having been tortured....
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, a preview of The Russian Woodpecker, the movie directed by Chad Gracia which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2015. What if it was not...
The theatre of objects is a tale of world history through objects, a narrative based on showing things, certain that even the most modest memento, say an advertising ashtray, may lead to a story or ...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 news analysis morning show Voci del Mattino presented by Paolo Salerno. Festival speakers will take part.
Today we live in a world based on data: information is key to cultural, economic and social processes. The growth of digital information and our increased ability to access it have triggered a chang...
GlobalStat.eu is a data repository which collects country-level data for 193 UN countries for the longest period available, starting in 1960. With its ‘3-click to data’ approach, GlobalStat faci...
The presentation of recent research conducted by an Italian team on the inefficacy of debunking. The team's work has made evident the limits of the current communicative approach to the correction o...
Learn how to open your Youtube channel, how to populate it and how to engage and retain your audience on your channel. Get tips on the best practices to create a well branded channel and to produce ...
Journalism ethics for everyone: Italy, the USA, and a tool for a do-it-yourself code. The difference between journalism and other forms of communication is its ethics, whatever laws and regulations...
Do satire and online parody have different limits than traditional newspapers? To what point do they exclude defamation? Does online defamation have a distinguished legal treatment, and does the "ri...
In its investigation entitled The Hidden Fleet (Deecember 2015), the CORRECT!V team uncovered a network of Syrian traffickers who smuggle migrants, hashish and weapons around the Mediterranean Sea u...
The session will consider new approaches to storytelling in the digital age, including innovative technologies and methods being used to source stories and new formats being used to visualize the st...
Making secondary trauma a primary issue: understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. A growing number of journalists who regularly handle images and videos sourced from the social ...
Mobile journalism is challenging both the ways reporters and audiences produce news. This session will explore new ways mobile technology is used in news production, and the limits and privacy and...
A breathless tour of the universe of free software that’s available to help import, summarize, manage, graph and map your data. From statistical analysis in R and Python to geospatial analysis in ...
The purpose of this masterclass is to provide journalists as well as journalism students with the know-how to use Twitter and Periscope for their daily work. The participants will be walked through ...
In this workshop, the necessary measures to ensure the privacy of sources and the confidentiality of gathered information, reviewing all relevant aspects involved in the reporting process with parti...
In the times of Twitter, what does talking about literature mean? Who are the people that can make an influence? How can we say a lot with only 140 characters? Twitter has become the most simple and...
Grants have become an indispensable funding source for journalism. However, applying for a grant is a rocky road, and it requires thinking and writing in a manner that is, forgivably, alien to many ...
What happens when readers who care about a topic find a space where they can share their ideas, photos, and videos with like-minded people? Community: the holy grail of interactivity, chock full of ...
The valid demand not to be subjected on the Internet to the restrictive rules of intrusive nations and bullying companies requires a definition of constitutional principles in order to guarantee the...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 morning show Eta Beta presented by Massimo Cerofolini.
The press offices of big companies are increasingly becoming newsrooms: producing articles, videos, images, managing in-depth magazines and interacting directly with the public. Between storytelling...
Are we living in the golden age of investigative journalism? What happens when traditional reporting meets modern data analysis? Stories, case studies and techniques.
European structural funds: programmes and projects. Organised by the Umbria Regional Council.
Stephan Weichert will give an insight into his study which examined actions on all of the four journalistic levels (research, production, publishing and user interaction) that are adopted by techn...
In January 2016, the Italian Council of Ministers approved the preliminary draft of the decree on access to data and documents of public administrations, in accordance with the Public Administration...
The refugee crisis that has engulfed the European Union for over a year now is a classic example of a complex humanitarian emergency. Caused primarily by the civil war in Syria and, to a lesser exte...
Latitude, longitude, points, lines, polygons, rasters, vectors, reference systems and tools are the ingredients to understand how to display data on maps and acquire expertise in the GEO world. In t...
At CORRECT!V, we believe that everybody can be a journalist. We have started crowdnewsroom.org, a platform where we run investigations in the open and ask citizens to help. To get people involved, w...
The transition towards digital content has become inevitable for the future of the country. It affects every field, from education to the relationships between citizens and the public administration...
Thanks to social media everyone can have an opinion and a voice, but should journalists get personal too? Emotional imagery and words are a great way to get traffic on social media or to get an aud...
According to a Reuters Institute for Journalism report published in January, 79% of digital leaders say they will invest more in online news video this year than they did last year. As video operat...
Communicating with and on social networks. Strategy and tactics, planning, techniques and content implementation. Engagement and influencers. From the editorial plan to crisis management. Complex pr...
Diversity in the newsrooms and in media output is still scarce, despite abundance of good practices and inspirational role models. Women, people with disabilities, with migration or ethnic backgroun...
Hacking the newsroom. How hackers and journalists are working together to change the shape of journalism to come. Hackers, coders and programmers are more and more frequently embedded in journalist...
How to identify the best sources for a difficult investigation. Then how to get even unwilling sources to co-operate. The best sources are often people with something to hide. But how do you convinc...
A propaganda weapon or a neutral technique to improve the effectiveness of political communication? A key instrument in any election-winning campaign or a classic example of overrated fluff? The pan...
The Juncker plan aims to create jobs and growth through targeted investments in the most important sectors of the European economy, which is now emerging from the crisis. What does this mean in prac...
Tips and tricks for data-driven journalism starters with Hacks/Hackers Dublin. Data is now an indispensable part of investigative work and storytelling. This workshop provides an overview of Data J...
We live in a golden age of television, but not of television news. Television entertainment thrives “beyond the box” on an internet that has embraced video and where we see the rise of on-demand...
According to a recent report published by the World Health Organization, sex education at school promotes a decrease in unprotected sex, in sexually transmitted diseases and in teenage pregnancies. ...
The attacks against investigative journalism in Italy have not been coming just from death threats. Reckless complaints, unjustified seizures, deficient and inadequate laws, claims for compensation,...
Latest developers: how engineers and editors can work together to create an innovative newsroom. Should journalists and developers sit together in newsrooms? Does every journalist need to know how ...
With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...
Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...
In the beginning there was gonzo journalism, with the desecrating irruption of the not-neutral-at-all first person onto the journalistic scene. Then, with the advent of the web and digital reality c...
Every year Italians work until 5 February only to finance waste and inefficiencies of the state. On this symbolic date, identified by the newsroom of Sky TG24, there is the whole sense of the gravit...
Bail-ins, negative interest rates, the end of the bond market as we knew it and extreme volatility in stock markets have placed major demands on financial consultants, savers, journalists and financ...
This hands on session will teach users how to scrape websites using the WebScraper Chrome extension, a point-and-click tool to automatise data extraction from websites. WebScraper allows multi-level...
It is estimated that each year up to 2,000 billion dollars are recycled, much of it through companies that allow the identity of the beneficiaries of the money to be kept secret. Tracking financia...
Sourcing and verifying eyewitness media from the social web is now a standard requirement for many journalists, whether reporting breaking news events or investigating atrocities. In this workshop, ...
Turkey ranks in 149th place in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar. In its 2014 report, Freedom House demoted Turkish media from being “partly...
How are news media investing in and fostering innovation? Does this work better when launching a new start up, such as Ze.tt from the Zeit Online publisher, or creating a separate unit within the p...
Separating fact from fiction: understanding the most effective tools and techniques for verifying social content. In this workshop, led by two of First Draft’s verification experts, participant...
A personal recollection by Lirio Abbate of some of the many Italian journalists killed by the mafia; to honour the testimony they gave against the power and brutality of organised crime, to shed som...
A major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ s...
After the economic crisis which began in 2008, the Eurozone tried hard to find cohesion among its members while more and more fault lines opened under it. The accumulated tensions put the single cur...
In July 2015, the small editorial team of netzpolitik.org was notified that their journalists were under investigation by the German Public Prosecutor General and faced at least two years in prison....
Theopi Skarlatos and Paul Mason on the making of #ThisIsACoup, a four-part 2015 documentary series which examines life under austerity in Greece, the country’s confrontation with the EU, and the e...
Screening of #ThisIsACoup, a four-part 2015 documentary series (total duration 64 minutes) which examines life under austerity in Greece, the country’s confrontation with the EU, and the emotio...
Join Robb Montgomery for a photo walk through Perugia and discover firsthand how to start using your smartphone to find, capture and share pictures that tell stories. We will meet (regardless of we...
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the RAI Radio 1 news analysis morning show Voci del Mattino presented by Paolo Salerno. Festival speakers will take part.
Broadcast live from the Hotel Brufani in Perugia, the Radio Capital satirical newspaper review show Lateral presented by Luca Bottura.
Start from a datasheet to build an interactive map. Use MyMaps to produce rapidly an interactive map with markers, pictures and links. Learn how to use Streeview and its resources of historical and ...
Different cross-border projects in the last few years have made it clear that pan-European data-driven journalism is not only a possibility but can also have impact. We want to present a collaborati...
In an ideal world, public service media are supposed to deliver a healthy dose of impartial quality journalism (in news and other factual offerings), to inform and stimulate their constituents' cont...
Every aspect of our private and public daily life is now highly computerized. All world economies use the same basic infrastructure, the same software, hardware and standards, with billions of conne...
The Coral Project is creating open-source tools and resources for publishers of all sizes to build better communities around their journalism. It also collects, supports and shares practices, tools...
In most newsrooms, engagement is still seen as a nice-to-do, but not essential component of day-to-day journalism. We’d like to argue that, increasingly, engagement is journalism. Our work at Expe...
The principles of design thinking and running lean are fairly known in the tech/start-up world but they are rather new in the newsroom. In this session you will not only learn a new way to build ne...
While memes and bluster often overwhelm substantive debate, fact-checking has emerged as an important -- and growing -- counterforce. More than 100 fact-checking projects around the world actively h...
How can newsrooms use audience analytics to empower journalism rather than fall victim to a tyranny of metrics? A diverse range of quality news organizations including the Guardian, the BBC, and o...
Podcasting reached mainstream popularity in 2014, with the success of the investigative show Serial. But podcasters have been around for ten years, producing audio shows on any imaginable topic (inc...
Computerized sensors and electronic interceptions: how they work technically and what are the legal limits for their use, the related national and international framework, draft legislation and mai...
Traditional news has tended towards highlighting the negative: what has gone wrong and the problems it causes. But is it possible to have tough, critical journalism that also looks for solutions and...
Digital tools and emerging platforms have empowered newsrooms and communities alike to embrace audience-driven storytelling. What are the new models for collaborative journalism? Do certain stories ...
Nowadays cyber criminals attack online services to gain control of the users, to retrieve sensitive information or to manipulate transactions. In this talk we will discuss: 1. What are the main tec...
You're thinking of leaving your job to start something new and follow your entrepreneurial dream. What goes into getting started with a new venture? How do you find co-founders, build a team, get fu...
#ijf16talk by Hossein Derakhshan. Moderated by Carola Frediani.
What are the limits of an aggressive discussion on the web? Has there been an "institutionalization" of hatred that has been spread especially by media, politicians and institutions? What are the di...
Covering violence and trauma can be a psychologically hazardous enterprise. Journalists working on traumatic assignments often fear that, sooner or later, the work will leave its scars. But few have...
Why do journalism schools teach like it's 1996? And how can we fix this? In 2016, aspiring journalists need to learn more than traditional reporting skills and journalistic values. They need to mas...
The war in ex Yugoslavia started twenty-five years ago in 1991. Firstly it was Slovenia to move towards independence and then the Croatian War of Independence contributed to the continued dismantlin...
What do we need to tell great stories with our audiences and community? From tools that help collect and analyze contributions to tools that help us collaborate with readers (and other journalists) ...
False news stories in the medical and scientific field: how they are set off, how they are propagated and what can be done about it. The Internet, and social media in particular, is the perfect bre...
This talk will present Surveillance without Borders, a resource which illustrates how surveillance is being carried out around the world according to the Snowden revelations. The role corporations p...
What do three politicians - Antonio Tajani, David Maria Sassoli and Silvia Costa - have in common? They are all Members of the European Parliament; in particular, Tajani and Sassoli are the two Ital...
#ijf16talk by Mark Little. Moderated by Anna Masera.
Alessio Santarelli, Director EU Content Store Kindle, and Simone Spetia, Radio 24 journalist, will be the speakers in the session to share observations and suggestions based on the best practices re...
New technologies offer communication tools and news aggregators that are extremely effective for online journalism. Nevertheless, the use of these platforms, and methods related to the revision and ...
A reflection on the narration of the tragedy of migrants, as seen from different perspectives. With Matina Stevis, WSJ Africa correspondent, who has covered refugees and migrants in Europe, the Midd...
Internet is a world full of data that can be useful for journalistic work. Finding this data can be simple or very complex. This is a workshop to discover the official sources and data-mining techni...
It happened, software ate the world, we lost control over our information and security is not better than before. How to stem organized crime, corporations’ and governments’ appetite on data bub...
What does Italian news publishing already have, what does it lack and what does it need? There are five directives to follow in order to move innovation in digital media in Italy: business models, a...
Can a robot do my job? Understanding the growing trends in the world of computational journalism. With the Associated Press, amongst others, using automated journalism techniques to publish many of...
Messaging apps and Chatapps like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Viber, and WeChat are soaring in popularity. This shift means that increasingly, valuable eyewitness media is being shared on...
From GDP to teacher evaluations to IQ to pageviews, every aspect of our lives is measured and, more often than not, mis-measured. Learn about the problems with university rankings, how we measure ec...
Working in and reporting on war zones. What's changed? Organised in association with Medici Senza Frontiere.
In a world where 40% of users leaves a web page when it takes longer than 3 seconds to load and Ease of Navigation is the top website attribute users care about, the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) i...
Hunted by ISIS, the Syrian regime, Shabiha, different fighting groups, the Syrian electronic army and corporations, Syrian journalists and citizen reporters face death on a daily basis, and their da...
Three BuzzFeed country editors - from Canada, France and Spain - will discuss BuzzFeed International's strategy, with a focus on what works - and what doesn't - country by country. They'll share how...
Where are you? In conversation with Massimo Sestini, winner of the 2015 World Press Photo award. Photojournalism, the zenith camera angle and the discovery of a new point of observation of news even...
Yemen is presented by the Western media as the hideout of al-Qaeda and the kingdom of child brides. But it is also a nation with a millenary culture and youthful creativity, both back in vogue durin...
Over the past few years, The Times and Sunday Times have broken several exclusives that led to international outcry and institutional change, due in part to their investment in a computational inves...
Attacks against investigative journalism in Italy don't come (just) from death threats. Intimidatory lawsuits, unjustified seizures, deficient and inadequate laws, unreasonable claims for compensati...
Between ad blocking and sinking CPM's, funding for high-quality journalism is harder and harder to come by. From donations to micropayments, crowdfunding to billionaires, we'll explore what's workin...
Jay Carney, Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Amazon and former White House Press Secretary, will have a talk with Mario Calabresi, Editor-in-Chief of La Repubblica, to explore the meani...
Stories of computer attacks against journalists and activists. From the use of spyware to the mysterious attempts to force social profiles (as recently denounced by Twitter), journalists, researcher...
Clickbait vs mandate: how public service broadcasters can balance journalistic integrity with the pursuit of page views. Public broadcasters are strapped for cash and under extreme pressure to rema...
In four countries, the Guardian's Global Media campaign - powered by Change.org - has amplified the grassroots work of campaigners against Female Genital Mutilation in the UK, the US, Kenya and the...
A group of Syrian reporters, photographers and video-makers from all the Syrian regions risk their lives to document the daily and often silent struggle of the members of civil society who are worki...
Graphing data is one of the core components of data analysis. Visualizing information can help journalists quickly identify trends within a dataset, and a powerful visual can tell a compelling sto...
Data retention, state-sponsored attacks on Twitter, journalists being blocked from doing their work, Big Data and still “Nothing to Hide”? Despite the many threats faced by a growing number of p...
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up systems that allow you to monitor social media effectively so you will be the first to find out when news breaks. Learn how to find eyewitness...
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a celebrated investigative journalist in Ghana, focusing on issues of human rights and corruption. He has become well known for using his anonymity as a tool in his undercover...
February 2016 was the hottest month on record. Two months earlier world leaders gathered in Paris to hammer out a climate deal just as extreme weather events were causing drought in Southern Africa....
Italy ranked 65th out of 122 countries in the 2015 Freedom House report on freedom of the press, in the “partially free” category. Threats, intimidations and legal actions brought against journa...
In 2012, Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Instead of surrendering to his condition, he decided on a radical gesture: he began to publish online his medical records and all relat...
The future of local independent journalism won’t look like its past. And while that is creating unprecedented challenges for newsrooms, it is also opening up new opportunities to reimagine the rol...
Creativity, passion... and talent. Scientific dissemination and the world of innovation transformed into a show: the "EuFactor" project is presented with rigour and irony, thanks to the storytelling...
You may know Lego as a child’s toy but those colourful bricks are also a highly effective system for creative thinking. Lego Serious Play is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem solv...
Newsrooms adapting to the digital era suddenly have a sometimes overwhelming array of new production processes and options. But they have new helpers too: tech startups focused on helping them disco...
Writers Fulvio Abbate and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco team up once again for what has become an unmissable event in the festival programme.
In this workshop, you will learn from the very best in open source investigations. An Xiao Mina will demonstrate the power of harnessing technology for collaboration and introduce Checkdesk and Brid...
Corrado Formigli, the first Italian journalist to enter the Syrian town of Kobane after its destruction by Isis, in conversation with Karim Franceschi, the only Italian to have gone to Syria to figh...
Search engines, social media sites, and messaging apps accounts for a larger and larger share of online news use, presenting news organizations with new opportunities and challenges. The last year h...
Ten years ago, when WikiLeaks was created by Julian Assange, very few people could imagine the revolution unleashed by the publication of documents never seen before, like the Afghan War Logs, or th...
Unfortunately, the need for crisis reporting abounds. However, for a variety of reasons, many journalists can be no more than spectators, with little opportunity to develop substantial insights into...
In conversation with Justin Peters, author of the book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet. Interviewed by Fabio Chiusi. For more information on Justin's book se...
A brief history of trolls, hoaxes, and fake news stories in Italy and elsewhere, from Benjamin Franklin to Lercio.
Presentation of the latest book of Giovanni Floris entitled La prima regola degli Shardana (Feltrinelli, 2016). Moderated by Andrea Valentini. In Prantixedda Inferru, in the heart of Ogliastra, it...
Showing of the documentary film The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014), directed by Brian Knappenberger. Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy, Reddit co-founder and free infor...
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Diego Bianchi and his Gazebo (RAI 3) team of journalists, cartoonists, comics and musicians present the news in a (very) alternative way. A unique show in the Italian mediaspace.
Join Robb Montgomery for a photo walk through Perugia and discover firsthand how to start using your smartphone to find, capture and share pictures that tell stories. We will meet (regardless of we...
Concepts around economics and business are more complex than ever. At the same time clearly communicating what is happening in the global economies and in business is also more important than ever a...
We journalists aren't typically natural collaborators. We're competitive and autonomy is critical to our work. Yet, in an era of disrupted business models, scarce resources and new digital possibili...
Nicaragua and Cuba are two countries where the restrictions to freedom of expression make the work of independent journalists pretty difficult. The campesino’s march to protest against the constr...
Although the fight against corruption is one of the biggest challenges of all societies, the development of effective strategies to prevent and fight corruption is still very limited. The success o...
In the hackathon the public financing of Italian newspaper and magazine publishing in the years 2003-2014 will be made machine-readable. “Anomalous” cases will be registered and the relative cha...
An interactive journalism and transmedia workshop on the subject of migration, specifically migrant rights through media-rich storytelling and engagement. The following assets will be employed: >...
Reporting on the Israel-Palestine conflict is possibly one of the more demanding of journalistic assignments. The elements which come into play are multifarious: cultural, political, linguistic, eco...
The Internet of Things is the materialization of what was once called “Ubiquitous Computing” and then “Pervasive Computing”, both seen in the past as positive aspects of technology. Today th...
Journalism and Silicon Valley: the changing relationship between the news industry and social platforms. There is no more intriguing or important commercial relationship in journalism today than th...
This session will try to answer the following questions: - What are the main definitions of “terror attack” in the international media? - How can media organisations get ready to react to terr...
Broadcast live from the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, the Radio Capital news, music and entertainment show 42 presented by Enrico Bertolino and Luca Bottura.
How to report on humanitarian crises. Techniques and best practice. Organised in association with Medici Senza Frontiere.
This workshop will introduce the OSINT concept, with specific focus for journalists. It will explain key concepts and how a true methodology can be the essential foundation for work carried out corr...
How to cover an election? We are accustomed to TV marathons, but we are increasingly getting news through online newspapers, live blogs and updates of the results via Twitter. In between, the classi...
Encryption, trojans, backdoor: cyber-security has become mainstream news. What’s at stake? Why is cyber-war such a hot topic? And how is it that abstruse technological issues have become items on ...
Is there such a thing as the ‘right’ to be forgotten? The European Court of Justice and European Commission think so. Should there be? Badly defined, it might threaten freedom of knowledge and i...
The ins and outs of corporate communication and storytelling in the wake of the case study Eni vs Report.
The concerns raised by hardware security are increasing more and more as attackers expand their scope outside the pure realm of software. While certainly representing an advanced threat, hardware at...
#ijf16talk by Iyad El-Baghdadi. Moderated by Barbara Serra.
It's time to propose new models to filter the massive overflow of news and re-establish a relationship of trust between journalists and readers. It's time for a leisurely revolution.
Italian organised crime is a global problem, yet all syndicates maintain strongholds in their local area. Three newsrooms - Grandangolo in Agrigento (Sicily), Il Dispaccio in Reggio Calabria, CORRE...
Hackers and journalists: attempts at dialogue and the fundamentals of technology and security. Concepts, terminology, doubts and misunderstandings. This session includes a detailed overview of the ...
We are witnessing a return of nationalisms in Europe. Right-wing movements with radical and populist identity and xenophobic tendencies are now seated in the European Parliament and in 2015 the elec...
Through digitalization our world and the labour market are changing irreversibly. What does this mean for young people? And for the not so young? Is it more of a threat or an opportunity? What is th...
Presentation of the winners of the 2016 Amazon IJF scholarship. Benjamin Pagliaro, founder of Good Morning Italy, will moderate a session with the presence of Alessio Santarelli, Director EU Conte...
Beyond malware: the nasty side effects of client-side attacks Should I delete that email? Is this mobile app really useful? These are just a few questions that internet user ask to themselves while...
#ijf16talk by Peter Greste. How governments are using the war on terror to erode the space journalists are able to work in, and what we should be doing about it. Moderated by Marina Petrillo. ...
In a year when a woman is running for the president of the US, a woman has become the editor of The Guardian, and debates about women in business and in the boardroom are top of mind, have we made a...
Journalists, writers and publishers on trial and the limits of the obscene, of blasphemy and of pornography in the pre-digital and digital era. Trials, kidnappings and censorship targeting journali...
While in the West the crisis in traditional news media is deepening, in Asia the situation is different. In China, despite countless difficulties and regulations, some investigative journalism is be...
The increasing prevalence of analytics and Big Data in both the private and public sector present novel challenges for privacy. In this presentation, an example of the concept of predictive privacy ...
It’s been over two years since the Snowden revelations, and the debate about surveillance, civil liberties, national security and counterterrorism continues. Journalists around the world face impe...
In the last year, we’ve seen a number of breaking news events where content posted by eyewitnesses to social media has become a story in its own right. Whether that’s the hounding of students ca...
Is red meat bad for your health? What's a triple-blind clinical trial? Are the Finnish really that great at mathematics? What's so significant about statistical significance? During the first half ...
In newsrooms around the world, “product” teams are bringing together digital thinkers from both the newsroom and the business side. Together, they’re working to invent new ways of delivering t...
The question of the role of quality journalism in the digital age and winning strategies for the distribution of video content are the greatest challenges for media companies nowadays. With an over ...
For years now, our screens have been dominated by images of migrants and refugees embarking on the perilous journey to Europe, often risking their lives to reach a continent which is increasingly in...
Does journalism inform or explain itself on social media? Do companies communicate or make news? Journalists and communicators use the same tools and the same techniques on the same platforms. Wha...
The Digital News Initiative (DNI) is a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe to support high quality journalism through technology, to encourage a more sustainable news ecosystem,...
Reporters, photographers, fixers, producers: working as a freelance journalist in war zones involves risks, challenges and opportunities for those who want to report on events first-hand. What are t...
A global trend of using ICT for harassing and shutting down female voices and opinions is constantly happening, while women are struggling to stay vocal. The GTI project, apart from networking, shar...
A discussion with the authors of the 2015 book entitled The Red Web: the struggle between Russia’s digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries. For more information on the book, please s...
Sustainability movements are spreading in a growing number of sectors: food, energy, real estate, to name just a few. Only in journalism the notion of sustainability seems to lack any momentum. We t...
In conversation with Franca Leosini, star of Italian TV with her programme entitled Storie Maledette which looks in detail at infamous crimes in recent italian history. Her technique of interviewing...
In dealing with the refugee emergency and the terrorist threats of the Islamic State, narratives which center on invasion and a clash of civilizations are unhelpful. In this way, complex historical,...
Measuring is the base of understanding. Every year the SOC measures, analyses and studies all the attacks coming from the internet which target customers. This talk is the result of a year-long anal...
Finding and verifying eyewitness photographs and videos to report a news event can be a challenge but if you then want to include them in your reporting then you must also get to grips with the four...
What levers can be used to communicate in the most effective way the importance of doing some form of sport? What tools can help us to turn a good communication campaign into best practice? The role...
Three years ago just a small bunch of Spanish nerds knew what the data journalism was. Today, the most influential media in Spain all have a data journalism unit and there are at least three maste...
The crisis of the traditional model of parties, the personalisation of politics and ‘strong’ governments have all been ongoing processes in Italy for more than twenty years. The search for conse...
Technology has made it easy to make a really good camera fly. Now apps are making it so you don't even have to be a decent pilot. Journalists around the world are clamoring to use drones -- and many...
In February 2016, BuzzFeed claimed that its comScore metric of about 80 million UVs represented less than one-fifth of its actual global reach. This illustrates a reality that many news organisatio...
The presentation is about the evolution of cars from a technological point of view. Old cars had much technology but no electronic systems. Today’s cars have much technology and are endowed with e...
In northern Syria, near the border with Turkey, stands the town of Raqqa, considered the headquarters and capital of the Islamic State. The lack of journalists on the ground, both national and inter...
With increasing frequency, new independent collaborative journalistic platforms, in addition to the obvious aim of telling particular stories, are focused on helping to change a situation or solve a...
A stroll between poetry and science to consider the people and ideas that anticipated the present. Through a thousand-year journey in poetry, ranging from Homer to William Blake, from Dante to Gozza...
2015 saw a spate of women added to the roster of top editors in global journalism. One veteran is joined by three newcomers in a no-holds-barred conversation on how and why diversity at the very top...
The capture of traditional media by Facebook and its implications for free speech and privacy. Facebook, Apple and Google have all recently made significant strides in the field of publishing, with...
Hacking Team, big data and social media: when the news (almost) falls through the cracks. In Italy, the rules of production and circulation of news follow paths that often seem incomprehensible. Th...
Search Engine Optimisation, particles and quantum news. How best to use search engines for journalism. Search engines: a fly-wheel to make the most of, a service to readers, an opportunity for jour...
Mainstream, online news and social media alike have been replete with images of refugees since last summer. Images of people continuously on the move; marching through the countryside (on their way ...
L'odio online: violenza verbale e ossessioni in rete is the latest book of Giovanni Ziccardi. He will be in conversation with Antonio Sofi, with particular focus on the issue of verbal violence onli...
Experimentation and risk-taking and getting-it-wrong are vital to innovation, whether with new products/services or with the management of people, newsrooms, new forms of storytelling and change its...
Good journalists have never been lazy. They have always been brave enough to experiment with new forms, or to reinvent models of the past. If once this was seen as commendable, it has now become nec...
Italian preview screening of Transparent (second season) and The Man in the High Castle, two TV series produced by Amazon Studios. The event will be introduced by Roy Price, Vice President Amazon ...
In conversation with Fedez, a leading Italian rapper and TV personality. His Twitter bio reads as follows: many prefer cigarettes to my music because they do less damage. Alternatively rapper, singe...
Newspapers and news platforms are increasingly trying to establish a relationship with a young audience through social media: BBC on Instagram, CNN on Snapchat. Twitter and Facebook are becoming cha...
More than thirty years about Umbria, examined through the magnifying glass of a regional newspaper, Il Corriere dell'Umbria, launched in May 1983. The editor Anna Mossuto will trace the changes that...
To be a journalist nowadays it is more and more necessary to also know how to be an entrepreneur. This is true, of course, for freelancers but it holds especially true for those who want to set up t...
Commercial, political and personal global surveillance and the monitoring of data, information and the life of people have become highly topical themes. Current technologies allow the interception, ...
With publication imminent by Chiarelettere of the book Silenzi di Stato, dieci storie di trasparenza negata e di cittadini che non si arrendono (State Silences: ten stories about denied transparenc...
The Syrian conflict is one of the longest and bloodiest of the Middle East. Nevertheless, there are very few journalists who have managed to document it on the ground. This is why activists who have...
From "megaphone", used solely to promote one's own content, to a concrete publishing project to create new business models and new ways of dialogue with readers and professional communities. Newslet...
In conversation with Evgeny Morozov, whose latest book Silicon Valley: i signori del silicio was published in Italy by Codice Edizioni in January 2016.
Technical and scientific journalism in the digital age: approaches, objectives, problems. To write about technological issues becomes, day by day, more and more complex. It is not always easy to de...
To defend our identity. But which identity? The Christian West or the Enlightenment West? Liberal democracy or egalitarian democracy? Paolo Flores d'Arcais vs Giuliano Ferrara. Two well-known Itali...
From live debate on light topics to live witness accounts of citizens facing an emergency: how are Italian radio stations taking the opportunities of social networks to involve listeners in content ...
Journalists in South East and Central Europe are often filling an institutional gap and doing investigations in cases of corruption instead of state authorities, including investigation of corruptio...
This workshop aims to focus attention on the dynamics of action and reaction and related user-generated content (comments, tags, answers), capable of telling points of view on the dynamics of public...
With the implementation of so-called Madia Law, the Italian government has approved a major overhaul of access to information, inspired by the US Freedom of Information Act with greater protection f...
The security of journalists' devices and data: desktop, notebooks, smartphones and tablets. Every day, journalists deal with a variety of data, including sensitive data or data related to contacts ...
Screening of the documentary Torn, produced by the UNHCR and directed by Alessandro Gassmann. "How do you keep alive your own ideas if you are deprived of your house, your country... of everything?...
Be guided by data to plan your online communication strategy. From listening, to the organization of information and analysis: what are the main, most useful methods and tools to build and implement...
In Italy, the legal recognition of LGBT rights lags behind the rest of Europe, as demonstrated by the recently-approved law on civil unions. What is the role of the Italian media in reporting on top...
War, migration and the life of those who are obliged to flee their homeland. The screening of the documentary Torn by Alessandro Gassman will precede this event.
The panel will deal with the complexity of the communication processes involving human, IT and environmental sciences, through the results of research - including linguistics, computer science and e...
LegalLeaks: how to request and obtain information, documents and data from government even without a Freedom of Information Act. The law on transparency proposed by the Italian government is not (y...
Eleven per cent of the citizens of Umbria are non-Italian, one of the highest rates of any Italian region. How have these communities been reported by local journalism over the years? Has the local ...
The first in-depth investigation into the Italian petroleum giant Eni: political influence, the role of the secret services, financial scandals and new wars. Presentation of the recently published b...
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Greenpeace has hired a team of investigative journalists as part of its plans to make investigation journalism one of three pillars of its environmental campaigning. Maeve McClenaghan, formerly of t...
The crisis of journalism and the crisis of politics: are they mirror images? Are the reasons pushing citizens away from politics, making them feel they are no longer represented by politics and poli...
Suddenly finding yourself on everyone’s lips and having to manage sudden success: this is what has happened to Calcutta, a singer songwriter from Rome who made his debut with the album Mainstream,...
Showing of the award-winning documentary film How to Change the World on the origins and history of Greenpeace. Introduction by Andrea Pinchera, communications director of Greenpeace Italy. In 1971 a...
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