The scientific world is not exempt from abuses of power and racist thoughts and practices. On the contrary, as evidenced by the approval of racial laws in the 1930s or the persistence of eugenic movem...
Elisabetta Tola
Elisabetta Tola is a scientific and data journalist. A 2019 Tow-Knight fellow, she has a PhD in Microbiology. She is an editor of Il BO Live and presenter of Radio3 Scienza on RAI Radio3. Co-founder and CEO of the scientific communications agency formicablu and of the independent non-profit journalism project Facta.eu, she is a media trainer and professor of digital scientific journalism, data and AI on the Masters in Science Communication at SISSA, Trieste. She also coordinates the European research project ENJOI on the quality of journalism and scientific communication.
She is co-author of international multimedia, data journalism and podcast projects - among the latest Foresight - Deep into the future planet, in collaboration with the CMCC, and Oltrenatura, in collaboration with the Festivaletteratura of Mantova. She is the author of the manual Driving scientific research into journalistic reporting (2018, Lookout station project - European Forest Institute), of Making sense of science stats (KSJ science editing handbook, MIT 2020), and co-author of Seeds rediscovered. A journey in search of agro-biodiversity (2020, Codice Edizioni). Author and voice of She, Green podcast produced by Chora Media and Il Bo Live Magazine, (2024).
Events IJF 2024
Le disparità di genere persistono anche nel mondo universitario, tra i laboratori e i dipartimenti dove si fa ricerca e le aule dove si formano le nostre future generazioni. Quando pensiamo che l’e...
Social media, podcast, dirette video, libri, incontri pubblici e perfino fumetti. La scienza oggi entra in dialogo con le persone attraverso molteplici canali e diventa racconto, storia, analisi, dato...
A inizio anno, l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità ha dichiarato che il 2023 potrebbe essere l'ultimo anno dell'emergenza pandemica da Covid-19. Mentre si cerca di capire se ci aspetta una "nuova ...
Cosa differenzia un preprint, una open publication, un paper scientifico, un comunicato stampa di un istituto di ricerca e una dichiarazione di un esperto? Come si deve regolare un giornalista che vuo...
L'emergenza pandemica ha portato alla ribalta il concetto di "infodemia". L'eccesso di informazione spesso non verificate che rende impossibile formarsi un'opinione precisa su tanti argomenti. Più de...
Quale scuola vogliamo oggi e come possiamo rimettere al centro del discorso studenti e insegnanti, che della scuola sono i protagonisti principali? Al di là dell’emergenza pandemica e sociale in co...
Data journalism is thriving around the world. This panel will cover some of the very best work happening around the globe, and what we can learn from it.
They have different time frames, different rules, they even use different languages: the relationship between climate and journalism is a complicated one. On the one hand, some say it is the biggest s...
Challenging old habits through open access collaborative journalism: the case of housing
From the climate crisis, to migration to the rise of the platform economy to many other topics, stories and relevant issues are more and more transnational in nature, and journalists need to and do co...
In the third Eni festival session, moderated by Marco Pratellesi (co-director Agi), we speak of "formulas of journalism": facts, data and mobile. Among the speakers: Elisabetta Tola (Formicablu), Giov...
Facelift challenge: Let's get together and find collaborative processes for climate change journalism. Journalists, we have a problem. We need to find new narratives, new sensible ways to use clima...
Connecting science and journalism though climate change and digital innovation
The last few years have been too centered on the issues of fake news and debunking, particularly in some field of science, to actually reflect other very urgent questions that, in the long run, are li...
Basic tools and working method of a data journalist. Data formats, sources, tools for analysis, export and sharing online of datasets. Use of Google worksheets and fast visualization tools. Google Pub...
Opening a YouTube channel, organizing it, building trust and fruitful interactions with fans and followers, prioritize and make your contents more accessible using playlists and different formats. Imp...
This workshop is centered on the use of Google geolocation tools with different applications. MyMaps to create interactive maps that rank different events over a certain territory. Since import data u...
A science-journalism dialogue workshop on the reading, interpretation and return of scientific data. Two researchers act as a source and explain a "case" with relevant scientific data, as they would ...
Online security, verification and advanced research tools. Data and Google trends
Use of different tools and applications to navigate safely and protect your accounts and you digital contents. Optimize the use of the search engine to obtain relevant results in a faster and more acc...
Start from a datasheet to build an interactive map. Use MyMaps to produce rapidly an interactive map with markers, pictures and links. Learn how to use Streeview and its resources of historical and ...
Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...
Learn how to open your Youtube channel, how to populate it and how to engage and retain your audience on your channel. Get tips on the best practices to create a well branded channel and to produce ...
Learn how to use Advanced Search and search operators in order to improve your chances to find the right informations on the web: lower the background noise, choose the proper archives, reduce the s...
There is not (yet) a Freedom of Information Act in Italy such as in the United States and in the United Kingdom, but the rules on access can be very useful to journalists and citizens. Diritto Di Sa...
For a long time, journalists have had no real interest in finding out what impacts their stories are having: "Get the story out now. And tomorrow is a new news day" seems to have been the motto. We ...
From the New York Times to the Guardian, US and UK newspapers have been at the forefront of developments in the use of data journalism. In the last few years, media organisations in Spain and Italy, w...
Kapuściński reloaded, or when innovation embraces reportage. What can be created from the union of data journalism, video reports and field survey? Starting from concrete examples, we will explain h...
A hackathon dedicated to the Open Data Journalism Festival in Perugia. Join now, propose an idea! Help us to create an opportunity to bring together different worlds, looking for the new frontiers of ...
Italy is a highly seismic country. It's not the only one, of course: on the same level, and maybe even worse off, there are California, Japan, Turkey, the Pacific coast of South America and many o...
Data journalism has been growing enormously in recent years even in countries where public access to information and data are not granted by a Freedom of Information Act, as is the case with many ...
Hacks&Hackers Italy: here we go! First ever get-together of Hacks&Hackers in Italy. And who better to kick it all off than two H&H founders, Burt Herman and Aron Pilhofer? This is neith...
From bits to Pulitzer: when journalism in the public interest scores a scoop When bit met data sparks did fly. Introducing journalists and software engineers, or more broadly journalism and advanced ...
Geek Nation by Angela Saini Geek Nation: how Indian science is taking over the world by Angela Saini was published globally in spring 2011. It hit the top of the non-fiction bestseller lists in Ind...
Diving into Data: The School of Data Journalism at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia In the past investigative reporters would suffer from a scarcity of information relating to quest...
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