Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah (2006), will give the opening speech at the International Journalism Festival on Tuesday 12 April at 21.00 in the Teatro Pavone. The...
Author - Chris Potter
The open data movement, with the US and UK governments to the fore, is putting a vast and unprecedented quantity of republishable public data on the web. This...
Mexico, together with Honduras and Pakistan, is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. Fourteen journalists were murdered in 2010, 68 in the past ten...
AgoraVox, set up in France in March 2005 by Carlo Revelli and Joel De Rosnay, is the first European website for participatory journalism by non-professional and...
POLIS, the media think tank at the London School of Economics, will run two panel discussions at the festival: Death of the foreign correspondent? (18.00 thursday 14...
ONA will run two panel discussions and four workshops at the festival. Freedom of the “press” and freedom of “speech” in the digital universe (16...
The news frontier. The Columbia Journalism Review online presents a comprehensive look at the ins and outs of digital news entrepreneurship. Four festival panels on this...
The recent, dramatic events in North Africa and Middle East revealed a new combination of street activism and online social media to promote change, transparency...
The analogy sometimes used is that of Rupert Murdoch as UK Prime Minister, media empire intact and thriving. Add in ownership of a slew of widely-read glossy weeklies...