First Amendment - 20 Giugno Guterres to UN Correspondents: Protection of Journalists Is Our Task UNCA VIDEO/ Scannews
U.N. - 19 Giugno Guterres Fails to Act in the “Brutal” Killing of US-based, Saudi Journalist, Khashoggi During a press briefing, when asked for the Secretary General’s response to the Special Rapporteur’s request, spokesman for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, responded that the Secretary-General “would give full consideration to the recommendations regarding the protection of journalists.” He further stated that the Secretary-General “does not have the power or the authority to launch criminal investigations without a mandate from a competent inter-governmental body. Needless to say, many journalists found this response unsatisfactory...
News - 6 Giugno Alexander Stille on Italy and the US: Why Trump and Salvini Win (Helped by Media) As a great expert in journalism and of the dynamics of mass communication, Professor Stille believes that, in the era of populism, the media should draw their inspiration from the principle recently expressed by Martin Baron, director of "The Washington Post”: “We are not at war, we are at work.” “It means not considering the press as a weapon of war against Trump, but, as journalists, devoting ourselves to our own work conscientiously."
People - 24 Aprile Gaia Pianigiani’s Beauty of Journalism: Freedom Will Always Have a Future She thinks that journalists are “artisans of words,” and that, in order to carry out this profession every day, you need care, precision, and inventiveness, just like a craftsman. And she maintains that she became an “artisan of words” thanks to her stubbornness because despite the recommendations of those who (maybe wisely) had advised her […]
People - 9 Aprile New York Times’ Gaia Pianigiani Wins VNY Liberty Meets Beauty Media Award The second edition of the journalistic award will be held at a ceremony at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York on April 25th, an event that celebrates the Liberation of Italy from Nazi-Fascism during WWII, and the sixth anniversary of the online digital bilingual news outlet, La Voce di New York.
U.N. - 7 Gennaio Journalism as a Vocation: Being Young Reporters in Dangerous Countries We asked the young fellows who attended the Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship at the UN last fall to tell us what being journalists in their countries – where the press works in difficult circumstances – is like, and what it means to them. Here are the answers of some of them.
People - 17 Dicembre 2018 Stefano Vaccara Receives the Amerigo Award for Journalism for Best Website The evening prior, the recipients of the award were invited to a welcome dinner with the U.S. ambassador Lewis M. Eisenberg, who had come specially from Rome. During the dinner, Eisenberg stressed the importance of freedom of expression and of the press. To Lucia Annunziata (Huffington Post) the Special Amerigo Award.
News - 14 Novembre 2018 From Cronkite to Hannity: How News Coverage Reflects a Changing Worldview Today “alternative facts” and “post-truth” are notions that have seeped into our consciousness and the average news consumer rarely stops to dig deeper into the details. The very idea that there could be a single truthful version of any story is alien to us in the age of post-modernist relativity. So we need to ask the obvious question: can any journalism be objective, un-biased, balanced and fair?
Arts - 18 Ottobre 2018 The US Press’ Infatuation with Mussolini: Mauro Canali’s Talk at Casa Italiana NYU When Benito Mussolini rose to power, American journalists “had very little reference” with which to analyze his initial policies. They were hence limited, by communist fear at home and lack of frame of reference abroad, to what they saw and experienced. What they saw, especially throughout the years that saw Mussolini transition from prime minister to dictator, was a country that, in the face of communism, adopted an alternative, more America-friendly political system that seemed to effectively address many of the issues that had caused such disorder years prior.
New York - 17 Ottobre 2018 Experience by Experience, Gina di Meo Brings Snapshots of American Life to Italy Within a country so intrinsically culturally varied, this kind of experiential journalism is absolutely vital in representing such a beautifully complex cultural body. Everything, from food, to music, to habits, to sports not only varies from place to place, but finds itself immensely influenced by history.