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...
Cecilia Ferrara
co-founder IRPI
Cecilia Ferrara, co-founder of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy, is a freelance journalist. She graduated in European Contemporary History at the University of Florence. She started working as a journalist in the communitarian radio station Novaradio, in Florence, in the year 2000. She became an expert of Balkan politics, society and organised crimes, living from 2007 to 2010 in Sarajevo and Belgrade. In that period she freelanced for several Italian and international media such as Il Venerdì (La Repubblica), Osservatorio Balcani and Caucaso, Left, Avvenimenti, Europa, Transition online, Le Jeudì, Narcomafie, Avvenire, Carta, Peacereporter, Rinascita. She is co-author of the book Narconomics (2011) on the international traffic of cocaine and heroine. At the moment she works on transnational investigative journalism projects.
Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) is a new centre of investigative journalism based in Italy. It was set up along the lines of the best centres of investigative journalism worldwide. It h...