‘Il mondo è in fiamme’, i roghi delle guerre bruciano terre, vite e speranze di pace. La narrazione letteraria e la cronaca giornalistica dei conflitti attualmente in corso s’intrecciano nellâ...
Cecilia Sala, journalist and the first podcaster correspondent in crisis areas, is the author and voice behind "Stories," a daily podcast by Chora Media that narrates a story from around the world every day.
A graduate in International Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, she writes for Il Foglio and has published reports from abroad in Espresso, Vanity Fair, and Wired. She has covered the crisis in Venezuela, protests in Chile, Iran, the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban in August 2021, and the war in Ukraine.
She has worked in the editorial team of Otto e Mezzo, with the media company Vice for SkyTG24, with Rai, and with Fremantle Media.
For the Huffington Post, she co-created the podcast "Polvere" with Chiara Lalli, dedicated to the murder of Marta Russo. The podcast was adapted into the eponymous book, published by Mondadori in 2021. Also for the same publishing house, in 2023, she published 'L'incendio,' a reportage on a generation spanning Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan.
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According to Hegel "the newspaper is the morning prayer of modern man". Exactly 2 centuries later, we could say that the podcast is the new daily prayer. A ritual, a habit that is becoming - especiall...