Here’s your menu: data-driven reporting, crowdmapping, social media, online petitions, whistleblowing platforms. Choose one, some or all of them. How best to involve citizens (and indeed other jou...
Rosy Battaglia
Rosy Battaglia is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, as well as the founder of Cittadini Reattivi, a civic and investigative journalism platform focused on the environment, public health, and legality, established in 2013. A FOIA and open data activist, she also serves as president of the namesake association that advocates for the right to know and access information in Italy.
She is the creator of the multimedia storytelling project “Storie Resilienti,” dedicated to communities fighting for environmental and health justice. This work has yielded two documentary investigations: “La rivincita di Casale Monferrato” (Italy 2018, 30’) and “Io non faccio finta di niente” (Italy 2020, 51’), both selected by numerous national and international festivals. She is currently developing a third investigative documentary, “Taranto chiama”, which gave rise to the European inquiry “Taranto, zona di sacrificio,” produced in collaboration with the European network CORRECTIV. Europe.
Her latest investigations and reports have been published by Wired Italia, Valori.it, Sapereambiente, and La Nuova Ecologia.
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...
Barcamp Environmental news in Italy is becoming a case study regarding the changes introduced by digital media. While classic topics struggle to take the digital road and mainstream media often ...
A journey through civic media, maps, platforms and social networks, where communities have found the means to vent their feelings. Feelings that frequently are just waiting to be heard, shared...
Is it possible to create in Italy a network of independent journalists who pay attention to the demands from the grassroots level on issues regarding environment, health and legality? How can independ...