"The left-leaning La Repubblica ran an almost blank front page with only a tiny "post-it" style yellow memo reading: "The gagging law will deny citizens the right to be informed".
Corriere della Sera called it "a dark day" for justice and L'Unita, paper of the largest opposition party, ran its headline with typeface that was used when Benito Mussolini ran Italy and controlled the media."
[from Roy Greenslade's Guardian Blog]
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
Freedom of the Press 2010: Italy
Freedom of the Press 2010: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980, was released on April 29, in advance of World Press Freedom Day on May 3.
"Of the 196 countries and territories assessed during calendar year 2009, 69 (35 percent) were rated Free, 64 (33 percent) were rated Partly Free, and 63 (32 percent) were rated Not Free. (...)
Italy remained an outlier in the Partly Free category, registering a small score decline due to increased government attempts to interfere with editorial policy at state-run broadcast outlets." says the Overview Essay by Karin Deutsch Karlekar.
Each year Freedom House produces a graphic representation of its country ratings in the form of the Map of Press Freedom.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the index, Freedom House has produced a series of historical charts and graphs showing trend in media freedom over the past 30 years.
Please, check Historical Maps. Using data from past reports, a series of 4 historical maps graphically demonstrate trends in media freedom over the past 30 years, at decade-long intervals. Italy had a "free" status in 1980, 1990, 2000 and has a "partly free" status in 2010.
"Of the 196 countries and territories assessed during calendar year 2009, 69 (35 percent) were rated Free, 64 (33 percent) were rated Partly Free, and 63 (32 percent) were rated Not Free. (...)
Italy remained an outlier in the Partly Free category, registering a small score decline due to increased government attempts to interfere with editorial policy at state-run broadcast outlets." says the Overview Essay by Karin Deutsch Karlekar.
Each year Freedom House produces a graphic representation of its country ratings in the form of the Map of Press Freedom.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the index, Freedom House has produced a series of historical charts and graphs showing trend in media freedom over the past 30 years.
Please, check Historical Maps. Using data from past reports, a series of 4 historical maps graphically demonstrate trends in media freedom over the past 30 years, at decade-long intervals. Italy had a "free" status in 1980, 1990, 2000 and has a "partly free" status in 2010.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Eleven Catania
Eleven Catania by the University of Catania (Giovanni Battaglia, Claudia Campese, Salvatore Catalano, Alberto Conti, Desirée Miranda, Daniele Palumbo, Agata Pasqualino, Leandro Perrotta, Marco Pirrello, Roberto Sammito, Carmen M.T. Valisano) won the 1st prize ex-aequo of the Digital Heretics 2010 award.
[The first Digital Heretics journalism award invited the submission of online reportages incorporating video, audio, text, photographs, animation (or a mix of these) which make innovative use of the internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mash-ups, web 2.0, etc).
The Digital Heretics award was created in association with the authors of the book Eretici digitali Vittorio Zambardino and Massimo Russo, who decided to devolve their royalties for the award.
The other winner ex-aequo is a multimedia project by the Italian journalist Marco Pavan, After Jugo - Sarajevo the life of a generation]
[The first Digital Heretics journalism award invited the submission of online reportages incorporating video, audio, text, photographs, animation (or a mix of these) which make innovative use of the internet (crowdsourcing, collaborative journalism, mash-ups, web 2.0, etc).
The Digital Heretics award was created in association with the authors of the book Eretici digitali Vittorio Zambardino and Massimo Russo, who decided to devolve their royalties for the award.
The other winner ex-aequo is a multimedia project by the Italian journalist Marco Pavan, After Jugo - Sarajevo the life of a generation]
Monday, April 19, 2010
International Journalism Festival (Perugia, 4/21/10-4/25/10)
ijf10 - IV edition
"The annual Perugia International Journalism Festival is the leading journalism event in Italy. It is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. The leitmotiv is one of informality and accessibility, designed to appeal to journalists, journalism students and those interested in the role of the media in society."
"The annual Perugia International Journalism Festival is the leading journalism event in Italy. It is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. The leitmotiv is one of informality and accessibility, designed to appeal to journalists, journalism students and those interested in the role of the media in society."
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Nieman and Shorenstein Honor Italian Journalists, La Repubblica
"The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy have presented a citation to Ezio Mauro, editor of La Repubblica in Italy, recognizing his courageous leadership and the essential efforts of the newspaper on behalf of press freedom. It is a statement of support for Mauro and his colleagues in the face of attacks and legal actions by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi.
The citation was presented by Nieman Foundation Curator Bob Giles, NF ’66, and Director of the Shorenstein Center Alex Jones, NF ’82, during the annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press on Oct. 22 at Harvard Kennedy School."
The citation was presented by Nieman Foundation Curator Bob Giles, NF ’66, and Director of the Shorenstein Center Alex Jones, NF ’82, during the annual Richard S. Salant Lecture on Freedom of the Press on Oct. 22 at Harvard Kennedy School."
Friday, October 2, 2009
Festival Internazionale (Ferrara, Oct. 2-4, 2009)
Internazionale is a weekly magazine published in Italy. It presents international articles translated into Italian.
An interested section is titled "Nuovi Italiani".
* Program of the Festival
An interested section is titled "Nuovi Italiani".
* Program of the Festival
Saturday, September 12, 2009
"The Florentine"
The Florentine "is a bi-weekly publication printed in English covering news, events, culture, politics, business, travel, food, sports, weather, etc., in and around the Florence area.
The target audience of The Florentine is the English-speaking community (American, British, Australian, and all other nationalities that may speak more English than Italian) who are living in, staying in, or visiting Florence and it’s surrounding areas. The Florentine intends to inform this community of current events in and around the Florence area.
The Florentine will be distributed throughout the City of Florence." [website]
The target audience of The Florentine is the English-speaking community (American, British, Australian, and all other nationalities that may speak more English than Italian) who are living in, staying in, or visiting Florence and it’s surrounding areas. The Florentine intends to inform this community of current events in and around the Florence area.
The Florentine will be distributed throughout the City of Florence." [website]
Friday, September 11, 2009
ItaliaDallEstero.info
In the site ItaliaDallEstero.info you can find the Italian translation of articles about Italy from international media such as Economist, The New York Times, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Le Figaro, Le Monde, El Mundo, El Pais, Göteborg Posten, Dagens Nyheter. There are 65 members of the staff.
* You Tube channel
* You Tube channel
Monday, April 20, 2009
Italian Film Directors turning to the web
April 20, 2009 The New York Times
Italians Look to Small Screen
taken in large part from an article by ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
There has been a conspicuous shift in the Italian film industry — from the big screen to the computer screen. Several of the best-known Italian directors have turned their lenses to making short movies for the Internet. Some have been lured by commercial projects, others by the opportunity to tell poignant stories in a condensed form. And in a country with one of the lowest levels of Internet access in Europe, for many it is the first time they have flirted with the medium.
For one such project, Sorrentino and four other top directors created short videos for the Web version of La Repubblica, the daily paper in Rome, after the earthquake that ravaged Abruzzo this month. http://tv.repubblica.it/dossier/registi-macerie
“We call them, ‘documentart-eries’ because it’s difficult to define them otherwise,” said Gregorio Botta, a deputy editor at La Repubblica who spearheaded the initiative, which he said underscored “the important interconnection that exists between the newspaper and the Web site.” The five La Repubblica shorts, which started being posted two days after the April 6 earthquake, succinctly capture the devastation wrought by the natural disaster and the acts of heroism and humanity of survivors and their determination to rebuild their homes and their lives. For his heart-wrenching video of one of the earthquake victims, the Turkish-born Italian transplant Ferzan Ozpetek traveled to Abruzzo with members his regular feature film crew. “I am always meticulous, and this time I felt the responsibility of helping a group of people,” he said.
For another project, the legendary filmmaker Ermanno Olmi joined with Gabriele Salvatores, an Oscar winner, and with the winner last year of the Cannes Jury Prize, Paolo Sorrentino, to shoot three short films for the largest Italian bank, Intesa Sanpaolo. The films for Intesa Sanpaolo, which are to play in full or in trailer versions in movie theaters around Italy until the end of the month [May 2009], are part of a “PerFiducia” — Have Faith — campaign and the bank’s “intent to recount the positive and vital forces that animate our country,” according to the PerFiducia Web site. http://www.perfiducia.com/#/homepage “We wanted to do something useful to contrast the negative mood that was growing in people, because apart from the economic crisis there is also a widespread crisis of faith in the future,” said Vittorio Meloni, head of internal relations for Intesa Sanpaolo. This was not the moment for a traditional ad campaign touting a bank’s merits, he said. “It’s enough for us that people ask, ‘Why did the bank do this?’ Because the answer implies that we are more than just a bank.”
For directors, working for the Web offers greater freedom from the constraints of the big screen or television, and an immediacy and visibility that is potentially unparalleled, compared with theatrical releases. But the essence of movie making does not change, said Francesca Comencini, who directed her first Web short about a group of women in a destroyed Abruzzo village for La Repubblica. “In theory, the means shouldn’t define the content,” she said. “The ethics are the same.” The issue was widely debated in Italy years ago, when film directors began to make television commercials, she added. “But in the end they made products that were exquisitely cinematographic,” she said.
The burgeoning genre has already spawned a festival. The Babelgum Online Film Festival, with Spike Lee as host, is an offshoot of the Britain-based online content site founded by an Italian billionaire, Silvio Scaglia, “to nurture new filmmaking talent,” and put the work of traditional filmmakers online, said Babelgum’s media relations director, Andrea Giannotti.
The level of access to the Internet in Italy is tied with Portugal at second-worst in Europe, ahead of only Russia, according to comScore. Even so, more than 400,000 viewers have watched the Intesa Sanpaolo films on the site, Meloni said.
Italians Look to Small Screen
taken in large part from an article by ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
There has been a conspicuous shift in the Italian film industry — from the big screen to the computer screen. Several of the best-known Italian directors have turned their lenses to making short movies for the Internet. Some have been lured by commercial projects, others by the opportunity to tell poignant stories in a condensed form. And in a country with one of the lowest levels of Internet access in Europe, for many it is the first time they have flirted with the medium.
For one such project, Sorrentino and four other top directors created short videos for the Web version of La Repubblica, the daily paper in Rome, after the earthquake that ravaged Abruzzo this month. http://tv.repubblica.it/dossier/registi-macerie
“We call them, ‘documentart-eries’ because it’s difficult to define them otherwise,” said Gregorio Botta, a deputy editor at La Repubblica who spearheaded the initiative, which he said underscored “the important interconnection that exists between the newspaper and the Web site.” The five La Repubblica shorts, which started being posted two days after the April 6 earthquake, succinctly capture the devastation wrought by the natural disaster and the acts of heroism and humanity of survivors and their determination to rebuild their homes and their lives. For his heart-wrenching video of one of the earthquake victims, the Turkish-born Italian transplant Ferzan Ozpetek traveled to Abruzzo with members his regular feature film crew. “I am always meticulous, and this time I felt the responsibility of helping a group of people,” he said.
For another project, the legendary filmmaker Ermanno Olmi joined with Gabriele Salvatores, an Oscar winner, and with the winner last year of the Cannes Jury Prize, Paolo Sorrentino, to shoot three short films for the largest Italian bank, Intesa Sanpaolo. The films for Intesa Sanpaolo, which are to play in full or in trailer versions in movie theaters around Italy until the end of the month [May 2009], are part of a “PerFiducia” — Have Faith — campaign and the bank’s “intent to recount the positive and vital forces that animate our country,” according to the PerFiducia Web site. http://www.perfiducia.com/#/homepage “We wanted to do something useful to contrast the negative mood that was growing in people, because apart from the economic crisis there is also a widespread crisis of faith in the future,” said Vittorio Meloni, head of internal relations for Intesa Sanpaolo. This was not the moment for a traditional ad campaign touting a bank’s merits, he said. “It’s enough for us that people ask, ‘Why did the bank do this?’ Because the answer implies that we are more than just a bank.”
For directors, working for the Web offers greater freedom from the constraints of the big screen or television, and an immediacy and visibility that is potentially unparalleled, compared with theatrical releases. But the essence of movie making does not change, said Francesca Comencini, who directed her first Web short about a group of women in a destroyed Abruzzo village for La Repubblica. “In theory, the means shouldn’t define the content,” she said. “The ethics are the same.” The issue was widely debated in Italy years ago, when film directors began to make television commercials, she added. “But in the end they made products that were exquisitely cinematographic,” she said.
The burgeoning genre has already spawned a festival. The Babelgum Online Film Festival, with Spike Lee as host, is an offshoot of the Britain-based online content site founded by an Italian billionaire, Silvio Scaglia, “to nurture new filmmaking talent,” and put the work of traditional filmmakers online, said Babelgum’s media relations director, Andrea Giannotti.
The level of access to the Internet in Italy is tied with Portugal at second-worst in Europe, ahead of only Russia, according to comScore. Even so, more than 400,000 viewers have watched the Intesa Sanpaolo films on the site, Meloni said.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Does Italy exist? (2)
A video introduces the number 2/2009 of "Limes".
On the same website the writer Andrea Camilleri writes about the so-called Italian identity.
On the same website the writer Andrea Camilleri writes about the so-called Italian identity.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Lo Straniero
Lo straniero. A monthly magazine of art, culture and society, directed by Goffredo Fofi.
The section 'Education' presents innovative projects such as Celio Azzurro.
The section 'Education' presents innovative projects such as Celio Azzurro.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Piazza d'Italia
Piazza d'Italia is an online monthly magazine of politics and culture edited by Franz Turchi.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Lessico e nuvole
Edited by Stefano Bartezzaghi, Lessico e nuvole is a section of "la Repubblica" based on word games.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Scioglilingua
Edited by professor Giorgio de Rienzo, Scioglilingua is a forum of "Corriere della Sera" dedicated to grammar and language, with questions from readers and answer from the editor.
Italian Life
Italian Life is an English section of "Corriere della Sera" dedicated to International readers.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Parole in corso
Parole in corso, edited by professor Gian Luigi Beccaria (University of Turin) is a section of Tuttolibri, the weekly periodical of La Stampa, dedicated to the Italian language.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Italian International Internet News Site
Internazionale.it is an internet news site with broad
coverage of news and cultural events.
coverage of news and cultural events.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Does Italy exist?
Limes, “rivista italiana di geopolitica”, has planned to publish a number whom title is: “Does Italy exist?” and asked readers to join the project.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
la Repubblica
Published in Rome, "la Repubblica" is one of the most famous Italian daily newspapers.
Corriere della Sera
Published in Milan, "Corriere della Sera" is probably the most famous Italian newspaper.
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