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Promo 2009

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International Journalism Festival - Edition 2009

Festival Report #7

April 5 - Last Festival day.

Interview with Nathan Heleine

Interview with Seymour Hersh

Francesca Volpi interviews the Pulitzer Prize journalist Seymour Hersh

Tre uomini di parola

Theatre evening: show based on improvisation and direct interaction with the audience. Each of the three protagonists is a man of his word (uomo di parola), who can be trusted to say what he thinks regardless of consequences and who possesses the convictions to make what he says interesting, especially if you disagree with him.

Interview with Vittorio Zucconi

Interview with Michele Serra e Giovanna Zucconi

Life in the red zone - the hell of Baghdad

Anne Nivat lived in Iraq, including the so-called red zone of Baghdad, for many months. The red zone is dangerous, impoverished, relatively unknown and largely ignored by the media. This is her first-hand account of the daily life of the citizens of Baghdad. The book, first published in 2007, will come out in Italian as Baghdad zona rossa in March 2009.

A Story Still to Tell: Giancarlo Siani

Awards ceremony: the annual A Story Still to Still to Tell award invites entries on the circumstances surrounding the murder of an Italian journalist. The 2009 award is dedicated to the memory of Giancarlo Siani, journalist of the Naples daily Il Mattino, murdered in Naples on 23 September 1985 while investigating local organised crime. He was 26 years ol

L’aquila e il pollo fritto

It's difficult to take our eyes off America. It's also difficult to sidestep what it frisbees our way, like toxic credit default swaps or Obamania. Vittorio Zucconi prods the marshmallows and reflects on his personal, intimate America. With Michele Serra

Festival Report #6

April 4 - the world of journalism as seen from the women perspective.

Interview with Javier Moreno

Stella Narciso interviews Javier Moreno, El Pais editor.

Interview with John Byrne

Blogger and new media expert Alessio Jacona interviews John Byrne, Business Week executive editor

Rosaria Capacchione interviewed by Bianca Berlinguer

Interview: why sacrifice your freedom? With Bianca Berlinguer and Rosaria Capacchione

The Graduate School of Journalism, City University, London

Do you see your future in journalism? Come along and learn about one of Europe's top journalism schools; its admission procedures, its courses and what it offers in terms of career prospects post graduation. Particular attention will be given to the Masters in International Journalism, an annual course especially designed for students who do not live in the UK. About 70 students from all over the world take the course each year.

Interferences # 5

The IJF After-Festival (in italian)

Photojournalism: the female view

Women or men behind the lens. Does it make any difference? To what extent does compassion or fury towards their subjects help or hinder the panellists' work? Do they feel a need to intervene in what's happening around them? Or can they remain neutral, a dispassionate eye, present but not present?

Promemoria

Theatre evening: a night out in the company of two of Italy's leading investigative journalists who will ruminate over what's gone on in Italian public life over the past 15 years. It's likely to make your hair stand on end.

Empowerment of the outsider in the age of the blog: example Beppe Grillo

Panel discussion: Beppe Grillo's blog was ranked in 6th place of the most clicked blogs on the web in the 2008 Annual Blog Index of Time magazine, a remarkable result for a blog not written in English. What conclusions can be drawn from this case?

Newspaper review

An entertaining and irreverent review of the day's newspapers.

Public opinion: does it still exist?

with Angelo Agostini, Ezio Mauro and Javier Moreno.Pas de deux: does the alleged demise of public opinion imply a decline in the power and influence of the traditional media?