People - 23 Gennaio Jen Psaki Will Serve Citizens the Truth, but Only as Far as Biden Wants In his inauguration speech, Joe Biden emphasized that “defending the truth to combat lies” is very important. A few hours later, the new press secretary, Jen Psaki, held her first daily briefing at the White House. In that little room – I’ve been there, and it really is small – correspondents will once again have […]
News - 15 Giugno 2020 Global Alert: Covid-19 Is the Perfect Pretext for Limiting Freedom of the Press The crackdown on journalism affects not only everyone’s right to speak freely, but it also weakens efforts to tackle the disease. Access to timely and accurate information is a crucial part of every individual’s right to health; and by restricting access to information, governments effectively prevented its citizens from making informed decisions when it came to facing the pandemic.
U.N. - 4 Maggio 2020 For World Press Freedom Day, Guterres Urges Governments to Protect Journalists When journalists are attacked, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, societies as a whole are also attacked. “No democracy can function without press freedom, which is the cornerstone of trust between people and their institutions,” said Mr. Guterres.
People - 25 Aprile 2020 Celebrating April 25th with Our Video Story About NY, La Voce and Liberty In Italiano This April 25th , we received a beautiful gift from an artist-director with a passion for New York. It’s a video that tells the story of this beautiful and unique city through La Voce di New York’s story, and at the end talks about me and the newspaper by way of New York. […]
First Amendment - 20 Giugno 2019 Guterres to UN Correspondents: Protection of Journalists Is Our Task UNCA VIDEO/ Scannews
U.N. - 19 Giugno 2019 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 2019 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 2019 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 2019 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 2019 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.