How to cover an election? We are accustomed to TV marathons, but we are increasingly getting news through online newspapers, live blogs and updates of the results via Twitter. In between, the classi...
Luca Sofri
Luca Sofri founded the Italian online newsmagazine Il Post in 2010, of which he is the editor. He has written for the Italian dailies Il Foglio and L'Unità and for the magazines Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired. In 2002 he was co-presenter with Giuliano Ferrara of the LA7 current affairs TV talk show Otto e mezzo and in 2005 he presented the La7 history programmes Passato prossimo. He also presented the radio broadcast Condor on Rai Radio 2 until 2009. He is the author of Playlist. La musica è cambiata (2008), Un grande paese (2011) and Notizie che non lo erano (Rizzoli, 2015). He writes the blog Wittgenstein.
The online world is filled with misinformation and hoaxes. Fake news websites, government propaganda, Photoshopped images, fake social media accounts and unethical scientific journal publishers are ...
Do online comments on news sites have a future, or will we see more and more news organisations closing their comment boards and handing all their conversations over to Facebook and social media? Is...
Here are some among 31 questions on journalism: Can external contributions be trusted? Should the news be new? Can what is placed within quotation marks be invented? Has Twitter replaced news agencie...
Print newspapers shutting down, the digital still a long way from offering a satisfactory business model, journalists facing competition from their readers: just some of the topics under considerati...
"Innovate or die" is often easier said than done, especially when you're working for bureaucratic legacy news organizations or underfunded startups. A discussion of specific strategies for innovatin...
The world saved by/from journalists Keynote speech by Luca Sofri. Introduction by Marino Sinibaldi.
Non-sports news in a sports newspaper The leading Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport is published every day with a pull-out section (printed on a different colour paper) entitled Altri Mo...