The legendary land of ice is perhaps the least journalistically-enticing place on Earth. Fantastic pictures, but little information, reach the public. Many dream of going. Few know what really happens...
Stefano Valentino
Stefano Valentino is a freelance reporter-editor. He is the founder of MobileReporter, a collaborative journalism platform and winner of the Google News Innovation Contest. A former Brussels correspondent of Il Giornale and blogger of Repubblica.it, he is the author of political reportages and social and environmental news reports from over 30 countries for Italian and foreign news organisations, such as il Venerdi, Internazionale, The Guardian and L’Express. In 2016 he followed the Italian oceanographic expedition to Antarctica for RAI Sciences. He is a member of the Future Media Lab, a grantee of the Investigative/Environment Journalism Fund, and a former visiting scholar at U.C. Berkeley and Columbia University.
In Italy, environmental and participatory journalism runs parallel to mainstream information, without crossing it. How should we bring an ecological local problem to the attention of a national audi...