programme: theatre shows


wednesday 21

The rights of children

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

The rights of children

Stories of gold and mud

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Stories of gold and mud

Front page moon

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The exhibition Front Page Moon, images of history from the Italian Senate Library Emeroteca,…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Front page moon

Faces, colours, memories

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The paintings of Gaetano Porcasi are not only painted news, as…

09.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Faces, colours, memories

The rights of the child

Paolo Allori Edizioni Tipolito Duemila Group
Giacomo Pirozzi photojournalist
Vincenzo Spatafora president Unicef Italia

09.00
Hotel Brufani

The rights of the child

Assault on the frontier

For schools. Screenings of docu-films and meetings with authors, organized by the Ilaria Alpi Association. This year’s theme is…

10.00
Palazzo Cesaroni

Assault on the frontier

The international social work communication award

1° international social work comunication award set up by the ONLUS Agency and the Umbria Regional Council.
Dante Ciliani president…

10.00
Palazzo Donini

The international social work communication award

The challenges of change: welfare, work and the media

The media industry is currently in crisis, with falling sales and falling ad revenues. But it’s also a time of…

10.00
Hotel Brufani

The challenges of change: welfare, work and the media

Are ebook readers and tablets good for newspapers?

Anything which increases the number of readers of my newspaper must be a good thing. Or so newspaper owners used…

11.00
Sala Lippi

Are ebook readers and tablets good for newspapers?

Humanitarian journalism: beyond reporting

Is the reporting of disasters like Haiti and long-term global problems like conflict and poverty being revolutionised by new forms…

11.30
Hotel Brufani

Humanitarian journalism: beyond reporting

The politics/media circus

Politics is a circus much of the time. The media is a circus some of the time. Hence political journalism…

11.30
Sala dei Notari

The politics/media circus

Reportage: the tricks of the trade

Alfredo Macchi, special correspondent and photographer of the Mediaset group, will explain the background and practicalities of doing…

14.00
Sala dei Notari

Reportage: the tricks of the trade

To see or not to see? Pushing the limits

What photos and videos should not be seen? Where’s the dividing line between the acceptable and the unacceptable? What’s the…

15.00
Hotel Brufani

To see or not to see? Pushing the limits

Bridging the gap between different languages and cultures online

In the Babel Tower of today’s Internet people actually risk to take part only in those areas and contacts restricted…

15.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Bridging the gap between different languages and cultures online

Ethical business and business ethics

Could or should business news be reported differently?
Danilo De Biasio director Radio Popolare
Andrea Di Stefano
editor Valori

15.00
Sala Lippi

Ethical business and business ethics

Magazines in the real-time era: a success story

The trend-bucking success of magazines in the age of real-time news. From slow food to slow news: the intrinsic value…

16.00
Sala dei Notari

Magazines in the real-time era: a success story

Women, the media and power

The role of women in the media, how the media can give greater visibility to female experience, the alleged glass…

17.00
Teatro Pavone

Women, the media and power

I read it on my mobile: the future of news on the move

More and more people get their news while on the move. What are the implications for news organisations and indeed…

17.00
Sala Lippi

I read it on my mobile: the future of news on the move

Football, the sports pages, the tales of a generation

OK, here goes: Clemence, Neal, Hughes, Smith, Jones, Case, McDermott, Souness, Kennedy, Keegan, Heighway. That proves I was born in…

17.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Football, the sports pages, the tales of a generation

Will jellyfish rule the world?

For schoolchildren. Young reporters of the future to learn more about the environment and sustainability. In association with Giornalisti Nell’Erba

17.00
Hotel Brufani

Will jellyfish rule the world?

Carmen Consoli

A rare live interview with leading Italian rock and pop singer Carmen Consoli. Among the issues under discussion will be…

18.30
Teatro Pavone

Carmen Consoli

Media treatment of the Meredith Kercher murder case

The murder case that shocked the city of Perugia. The trial and the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder…

19.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Media treatment of the Meredith Kercher murder case

The press, politics and the subtle art of manipulating numbers

An analysis by RENA on the daily use and abuse of statistics and economic data. RENA will also present some…

19.00
Hotel Brufani

The press, politics and the subtle art of manipulating numbers

Scintille – una storia di anime vagabonde

“The book by Gad Lerner is one of the finest of the season and one of the most unusual written…

19.30
Sala dei Notari

Scintille – una storia di anime vagabonde

Rip! A remix manifesto

In association with Cult (channel 319 on Sky Italy), a series of viewings entitled Damned journalists of some of the…

21.15
Sala dei Notari

Rip! A remix manifesto

Negri, froci, giudei & co.

Negri, Froci, Giudei & Co.
with
Gian Antonio Stella – narrating voice
Gualtiero Bertelli – voice,…

21.30
Teatro Pavone

Negri, froci, giudei & co.

thursday 22

The rights of children

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

The rights of children

Something to talk about

The festival will host a series of 4 panel discussions run in association with the Columbia Journalism Review online from…

09.00
Hotel Brufani

Something to talk about

Stories of gold and mud

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Stories of gold and mud

Front page moon

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The exhibition Front Page Moon, images of history from the Italian Senate Library Emeroteca,…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Front page moon

Faces, colours, memories

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The paintings of Gaetano Porcasi are not only painted news, as…

09.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Faces, colours, memories

Digital heretics: saving the web and journalism too

“A culture and a way of speaking about the world are in terminal decline. But journalism must to be saved…

10.30
Hotel Brufani

Digital heretics: saving the web and journalism too

What the papers say

An entertaining and irreverent review of the day’s newspapers with Diego Bianchi a.k.a. Zoro and Antonio Sofi

Happy Morning!

10.30
Hotel Brufani

What the papers say

Social movements and the media: 10 years of the World Social Forum

The future challenges and direction of the World Social Forum, the new frontiers of world governance and how the media…

10.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Social movements and the media: 10 years of the World Social Forum

Like a man on earth

For schools. Screenings of docu-films and meetings with authors, organized by the Ilaria Alpi Association. This year’s theme is…

11.00
Palazzo Cesaroni

Like a man on earth

Digital difficulties: the life and times of online journalists

The future of journalism may well be radiantly digital but in the meantime it’s tough going for many who work…

11.00
Sala Lippi

Digital difficulties: the life and times of online journalists

Italian TV: the critics sharpen their pencils

Much Italian television is awful. Then again, much European television is too. Why? The lowest common denominator syndrome or something…

11.00
Sala dei Notari

Italian TV: the critics sharpen their pencils

Words, words, words

For schools. A workshop on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 organised by Modus Vivendi.
Writing skills, the background to environmental

11.00
Palazzo Cesaroni

Words, words, words

Luca De Biase: the dawn of a new journalism

Luca De Biase editor of Nòva24, the weekly technology and new media insert of the leading Italian business…

12.00
Teatro Pavone

Luca De Biase: the dawn of a new journalism

The Associated Press: transforming digital news

A preview of the digital content transformation taking place at the Associated Press. The focus will be on AP’s approach…

12.00
Hotel Brufani

The Associated Press: transforming digital news

Citizen media to foster human rights and freedom of speech

Despite the early ’90s utopia of a borderless and transnational Net, today National laws, restrictions and business logic are reclaiming…

14.00
Hotel Brufani

Citizen media to foster human rights and freedom of speech

Media and power: the saga of the 10 questions

La Repubblica has been sued by Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi for ten questions the newspaper put to him in 2009.…

14.00
Teatro Pavone

Media and power: the saga of the 10 questions

Networked journalism

How are new technologies transforming mainstream news media? Blogs, Twitter, citizen journalism and other forms of social media are now…

15.00
Sala dei Notari

Networked journalism

The great unwashed

The student movement and the media: a classic love-hate relationship?
Domenico Calopresti film director
Tano D’Amico journalist and photoreporter

15.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

The great unwashed

Financial journalism: bad news blues

Financial journalism stands accused of focusing on the daily cut and thrust of business at the expense of the big…

16.00
Hotel Brufani

Financial journalism: bad news blues

Gianni Mura

Cattivi pensieri is the longest-running and perhaps most widely-respected sports column in Italian journalism. All 26 years of it. By…

16.00
Teatro Pavone

Gianni Mura

Women, the media and power

The role of women in the media, how the media can give greater visibility to female experience, the alleged glass…

17.00
Sala dei Notari

Women, the media and power

War journalism

Insights into the realities of war reporting in the age of the embedded journalist.
Gianluca Ales Sky News Italy
Oliviero

17.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

War journalism

The role of training in the journalistic profession

Journalism is changing fast. But does the training which young Italian journalists receive adequately prepare them for the realities of…

17.00
Sala Lippi

The role of training in the journalistic profession

Environmental journalism: choose your green with care

We’re all environmentally aware these days, thanks in no small part to the impact of environmental journalism. But do green…

18.00
Sala Brufani

Environmental journalism: choose your green with care

Visual communication by Oliviero Toscani

The Razza Umana (Human Race) project, a photographic road-trip created by leading Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, will stop off in Perugia…

18.00
Teatro Pavone

Visual communication by Oliviero Toscani

Nel silenzio un canto

A personal look at some of the planet’s most impoverished places.
Nevio Casadio journalist and television writer, author of the…

19.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Nel silenzio un canto

University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Presentation (via Skype) of a special session of the Web 2.0 Workshop of the Knight Digital Media Center at the…

19.00
Sala Lippi

University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

New business models for online news

Given the crisis in traditional media advertising and the growing importance of online news, the standard media business model is…

19.30
Hotel Brufani

New business models for online news

Bilal. To travel, work and die as a migrant worker

Bilal. To travel, work and die as a migrant worker
with
Fabrizio Gatti (narrating voice)

21.00
Teatro Pavone

Bilal. To travel, work and die as a migrant worker

Letter to Anna: the story of Anna Politkovskaya’s death

In association with Cult (channel 319 on Sky Italy), a series of viewings entitled Damned journalists of some of the…

21.15
Sala dei Notari

Letter to Anna: the story of Anna Politkovskaya’s death

friday 23

The rights of children

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

The rights of children

media140

The Italian stop of the Media140 world tour, after London, Sydney and Perth. The real-time web is dramatically changing…

09.00
Sala dei Notari

media140

Stories of gold and mud

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Stories of gold and mud

Common knowledge

The festival will host a series of 4 panel discussions run in association with the Columbia Journalism Review online from…

09.00
Hotel Brufani

Common knowledge

Front page moon

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The exhibition Front Page Moon, images of history from the Italian Senate Library Emeroteca,…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Front page moon

Faces, colours, memories

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The paintings of Gaetano Porcasi are not only painted news, as…

09.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Faces, colours, memories

All aboard in desperation

For schools. Screenings of docu-films and meetings with authors, organized by the Ilaria Alpi Association. This year’s theme is…

10.00
Palazzo Cesaroni

All aboard in desperation

Cartoons can be fun and informative

For schools.
Marco Gisotti editor Modus Vivendi
Gabriele Salari Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Plenair

in association with Modus Vivendi

10.00
Palazzo Cesaroni

Cartoons can be fun and informative

Local news on the front line

Organised crime remains a grim reality in Italian life, especially in the South. Local journalists are frequently in the front…

10.00
Sala delle Colonne

Local news on the front line

Media image or local identity?

On how the media constructs an image of a local area and of its public opinion and how effective public…

10.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Media image or local identity?

Remembrance of journalism past

Philip Meyer and friends ruminate on journalism past, present and future.
Derrick De Kerkover University of Napoli
Lorenzo Del Boca

10.00
Palazzo Donini

Remembrance of journalism past

News after the fall of the paper empires

From Gutenberg to Google, from the social networks which helped elect President Obama to the technocrats who decide how we…

10.30
Teatro Pavone

News after the fall of the paper empires

What the papers say

An entertaining and irreverent review of the day’s newspapers with Diego Bianchi a.k.a. Zoro and Antonio Sofi

Happy Morning!

10.30
Hotel Brufani

What the papers say

University journalisms: new media on the charge

Italian university newspapers, webradio stations and websites are an excellent lab for students to learn multimedia skills and the fundamentals…

11.00
Sala Lippi

University journalisms: new media on the charge

Photojournalism and conflict

Images of violence are the most powerful form of communication around conflict and yet photojournalism is in crisis. What is…

11.00
Hotel Brufani

Photojournalism and conflict

Paul Steiger: the role of news media in the digital age

Paul Steiger editor-in-chief of Propublica, a New York-based non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, and former managing…

12.00
Teatro Pavone

Paul Steiger: the role of news media in the digital age

Investigative journalism

Three leading Italian investigative journalists on how they carry out their investigative work.
Lirio Abbate L’Espresso
Carlo Bonini
La Repubblica

14.00
Sala delle Colonne

Investigative journalism

Precision journalism

Precision journalism is the use of social and behavioural science research methods to gather and analyze data. It forms part

14.00
Hotel Brufani

Precision journalism

Filming in dangerous places

The precautions, the unpredictables, the worries, the results.

Ruhi Hamid
BBC
Laith Mushtaq Al Jazeera
Ugo Tramballi Il Sole

14.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Filming in dangerous places

Literary journalism: the pen is mightier than the video

How nice it is to turn to the arts pages after the tour of duty in the business and international…

15.00
Teatro Pavone

Literary journalism: the pen is mightier than the video

Business, politics and more: the role of local online news

Marco Di Maio president National Online Press Association (ANSO)
Vittorio Pasteris
La Stampa
Angelo Maria Perrino
direttore di Affari…

15.00
Sala Lippi

Business, politics and more: the role of local online news

Health promotion: from journalism to social marketing

Prevention is better than cure. How best to communicate with the general public on issues of alcohol, smoking, diet, physical…

15.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Health promotion: from journalism to social marketing

A harsh winter in Russian journalism?

It’s more dangerous to be a journalist in Russia now than during the Cold War.
Marcello Greco RAI 3 News

16.00
Hotel Brufani

A harsh winter in Russian journalism?

Women, the media and power

The role of women in the media, how the media can give greater visibility to female experience, the alleged glass…

16.30
Palazzo Cesaroni

Women, the media and power

The 40th anniversary of FERPI

Time to pop the corks.
Gianluca Comin president FERPI
Giuliano Giubilei deputy director RAI 3 News
Maria Laura Rodotà Corriere

16.30
Sala delle Colonne

The 40th anniversary of FERPI

I want to be like you

From running a blog or website to to making a living out of it.
Traditional journalism is going through both…

17.00
Sala Lippi

I want to be like you

Go West ragazzo!

Italy is not a country for the young. Discuss.
Pierluigi Celli general director Luiss University, Rome
Giuseppe Civati blogger and…

17.30
Teatro Pavone

Go West ragazzo!

Al Jazeera new media and Creative Commons repository: the new future for digital journalism?

The panel will explore Al Jazeera’s new media strategy with Moeed Ahmad, head of new media Al Jazeera, and Laith…

18.00
Hotel Brufani

Al Jazeera new media and Creative Commons repository: the new future for digital journalism?

Bad temper: what is it with the Italians?

Three of the sharpest musketeers in the Italian media take on the thorny subject of the Italians. Histrionic, hypocritical, half-witted.…

18.30
Sala dei Notari

Bad temper: what is it with the Italians?

Marcello Lippi

Marcello Lippi and his Italian football team won the 2006 World Cup and are now preparing to defend their title…

19.30
Teatro Pavone

Marcello Lippi

On the Spartacus road

In On the Spartacus Road: a spectacular journey through ancient Italy Peter Stothard retraces the route taken by Spartacus and…

19.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

On the Spartacus road

Il Fatto Quotidiano: against all the odds

The new Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano was launched in the teeth of the crisis in September 2009 and has…

21.00
Teatro Morlacchi

Il Fatto Quotidiano: against all the odds

The devil came on horseback

In association with Cult (channel 319 on Sky Italy), a series of viewings entitled Damned journalists of some of the…

21.15
Sala dei Notari

The devil came on horseback

saturday 24

The rights of children

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

The rights of children

Stories of gold and mud

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Stories of gold and mud

Front page moon

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The exhibition Front Page Moon, images of history from the Italian Senate Library Emeroteca,…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Front page moon

media140 food&wine

The Italian stop of the Media140 world tour, after London, Sydney and Perth. The real-time web is dramatically changing…

09.00
Sala dei Notari

media140 food&wine

Trust falls

The festival will host a series of 4 panel discussions run in association with the Columbia Journalism Review online from…

09.00
Hotel Brufani

Trust falls

Faces, colours, memories

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The paintings of Gaetano Porcasi are not only painted news, as…

09.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Faces, colours, memories

2° national schoolpupils press forum

Saturday
09.30-13.00 presentation of school magazines
13.00-14.30 lunch
14.30-16.30 talks and debates
16.30-17.00 break
17.00-18.30 talks and debates
Sunday
10.00-13.00…

09.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

2° national schoolpupils press forum

Giancarlo Siani: freedom begins with words

An initiative for secondary school pupils in Umbria. Its objective is to consider freedom and to underline the often fine…

09.30
Teatro Morlacchi

Giancarlo Siani: freedom begins with words

Videocracy

Erik Gandini talks about the making of and reaction to his film Videocracy. Basta Apparire on celebrity and trash TV…

10.00
Teatro Pavone

Videocracy

Social media editing

A growing number of media organisations worldwide have decided that without a focus on social networks their journalism is incomplete.…

10.30
Hotel Brufani

Social media editing

Information spinning around you: the radiant future of local news

The worldwide web would appear to be the primordial soup par excellence for ever more globalised news. Yet the web…

11.00
Sala Lippi

Information spinning around you: the radiant future of local news

The hidden truths of the Vatican (inc.)

Gianluigi Nuzzi has rooted through the substantial Swiss archive of monsignor Renato Dardozzi (1922-2003), a high-ranking Vatican official for many…

11.00
Teatro Pavone

The hidden truths of the Vatican (inc.)

Javier Moreno: journalism and political corruption

Keynote speech by Javier Moreno editor of the leading Spanish daily El Pais.
Introduction by Vittorio Zucconi La Repubblica

12.00
Teatro Morlacchi

Javier Moreno: journalism and political corruption

Precision journalism: 2+2=good news

Precision journalism is the use of social and behavioural science research methods to gather and analyze data. It forms part

14.00
Hotel Brufani

Precision journalism: 2+2=good news

New models of investigative journalism

Not-for-profit organisations, citizen journalism and new media are revitalising investigative journalism which the traditional media has found increasingly hard to…

14.30
Sala dei Notari

New models of investigative journalism

History for those who weren’t there

Recent bestsellers in Italy have included historical works by well-known journalists. Light on new material but well laden with incidental…

15.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

History for those who weren’t there

On the radio: non-stop news began here

Radio is frequently overlooked when considering the media. Does the instant-image current media marketplace signal the beginning of the end…

15.30
Hotel Brufani

On the radio: non-stop news began here

Middle East Media: chocs away!

The “social Arab web” as it has been re-named has represented the best platform lately to generate many interesting journalism…

16.00
Sala dei Notari

Middle East Media: chocs away!

Women, the media and power

The role of women in the media, how the media can give greater visibility to female experience, the alleged glass…

16.00
Teatro Pavone

Women, the media and power

I pay, you pay, he/she/it pays, we pay, they pay: the unpaid bill is back

Knowledge may be power and information might be king but someone’s got to pay and it’s not clear who.
Traditional

17.00
Sala Lippi

I pay, you pay, he/she/it pays, we pay, they pay: the unpaid bill is back

Identity and reputation: little to gain, much to lose?

Personal identity is now a lot less personal than it used to be. What are the implications of this shift?…

17.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Identity and reputation: little to gain, much to lose?

Let me tell you about Europe

What is Europe? How is Europe? What next for Europe? Our Brussels correspondent reports.
Tiziana Barghini Reuters editor for southern…

17.30
Hotel Brufani

Let me tell you about Europe

TV. The thirty years war in Italy

A long, complex, inconclusive conflict resulting in the extensive destruction of the RAI, denuded by various foraging armies?
Franco Debenedetti

18.00
Sala dei Notari

TV. The thirty years war in Italy

Organised crime in politics: the nightmare scenario

According to government estimates, each year organised crime in Italy conducts business worth somewhere between 120 and 140 billion euros.…

18.30
Teatro Pavone

Organised crime in politics: the nightmare scenario

Meltdown – the end of the age of greed

We have recently lived through an event which many would have believed impossible: the capitalist system teetering on the brink.…

19.00
Hotel Brufani

Meltdown – the end of the age of greed

Peoplequake

This book tells of the story of the dramatic change in the world population that began with the industrial revolution, and…

19.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Peoplequake

Last stop Tempelhof

A reading dedicated to the fall of the Berlin Wall. By Valeria Palumbo and Sonia Grandis.

19.00
Sala Lippi

Last stop Tempelhof

Al Gore: independent information

Keynote speech by Al Gore co-founder Current and Vice President of the United States of America 1993-2001.
Introduction by Maria Latella editor…

21.00
Teatro Morlacchi

Al Gore: independent information

Fixer: the taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

In association with Cult (channel 319 on Sky Italy), a series of viewings entitled Damned journalists of some of the…

21.15
Sala dei Notari

Fixer: the taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

sunday 25

The rights of children

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The new exhibition The Rights of Children, inspired by the book bearing the…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

The rights of children

Stories of gold and mud

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
April 2009 – Reportage from the L’Aquila Camps photographs by Alessandro

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Stories of gold and mud

Front page moon

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The exhibition Front Page Moon, images of history from the Italian Senate Library Emeroteca,…

09.00
Sala CERP, Rocca Paolina

Front page moon

Faces, colours, memories

Opening hours 10.00 – 13.00/16.00 – 19.30
The paintings of Gaetano Porcasi are not only painted news, as…

09.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Faces, colours, memories

2° national schoolpupils press forum

Saturday
09.30-13.00 presentation of school magazines
13.00-14.30 lunch
14.30-16.30 talks and debates
16.30-17.00 break
17.00-18.30 talks and debates
Sunday
10.00-13.00…

09.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

2° national schoolpupils press forum

A story still to be told: Maria Grazia Cutuli

The annual A Story Still to Tell award invites the submission of short articles and/or videos on the circumstances surrounding…

10.00
Sala dei Notari

A story still to be told: Maria Grazia Cutuli

Tell me a story

The festival will host a series of 4 panel discussions run in association with the Columbia Journalism Review online from…

10.00
Hotel Brufani

Tell me a story

Mediacamp

Mediacamp: Barcamp on the media and crowdsourcing
An ad-hoc unconference for people to share and learn in an open environment.…

10.00
Sala Lippi

Mediacamp

Environmental and scientific journalism in Italy: full steam ahead

In a nation traditionally dominated by the humanities, scientific, technological and environmental divulgation in the mainstream Italian press is seeing…

10.30
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Environmental and scientific journalism in Italy: full steam ahead

Europe and the Obama presidency

President Barack Obama has transformed American politics. But what impact, if any, has the amelioratory zeal of the new US…

11.00
Teatro Pavone

Europe and the Obama presidency

My space

The amount of TV space taken up by politics and politicians (and journalists) in Italy is significantly greater than in…

11.30
Sala dei Notari

My space

Stories on Umbria

Stories on Umbria Journalism Award
The award invites the submission of articles or radio/TV programmes on Umbria published (including online…

12.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Stories on Umbria

How Islam in Italy is reported

Journalists from ethnic minorities are noticeable by their absence in the Italian media. Does this have an impact on how…

12.00
Hotel Brufani

How Islam in Italy is reported

Food&wine journalism: buon appetito!

Our food correspondent is away on assignment. At lunch. Again.
Stefano Cimicchi director APT Umbria
Marcello Cividini blogger

12.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Food&wine journalism: buon appetito!

Historical present

Peter Molloy BBC
Linda Polman freelance
Marco Pratellesi editor Corriere della Sera online
Stefano Salis Il Sole 24 Ore
Vittorio

14.30
Sala dei Notari

Historical present

Young journalists and precarious employment

The first few years as a journalist in Italy are no cakewalk. 
Claudio Cerasa Il Foglio
Stefano Feltri Il Fatto

15.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

Young journalists and precarious employment

Photojournalism and immigration

A workshop based on the material in and the ideas arising from the book L’immaginario migrante. Fotogiornalismo e immigrazione sulla

15.00
Hotel Brufani

Photojournalism and immigration

Political satire in Italy: who sets the boundaries?

These are tough times for political satire in Italy. Comics get sued, politcal cartoonists get suspended from television shows, many…

16.00
Teatro Pavone

Political satire in Italy: who sets the boundaries?

Don’t tell my mother

Diego Bunuel, grandson of the legendary Spanish film director Luis Bunuel and presenter of the Nat Geo documentary series Don’t

16.00
Sala dei Notari

Don’t tell my mother

Orgasm inc

In association with Cult (channel 319 on Sky Italy), the Italian premiere of Orgasm inc.
In the shocking and hilarious…

16.00
Sala dei Notari

Orgasm inc

The long march to change: where are we now?

To round off the journalism lab, the mediacamp and the festival itself, an evaluation of the current state of journalism…

17.00
Centro Servizi G. Alessi

The long march to change: where are we now?

How the media covers traumatic events

What legitimizes the intrusion by the journalist or photographer into people’s grief and/or despair? Recent earthquakes in Haiti and Abruzzo…

17.00
Hotel Brufani

How the media covers traumatic events

Enrico Mentana

“I caught the journalism bug when I was very young and after all these years it still hasn’t left me.…

18.00
Teatro Pavone

Enrico Mentana

The lost world of communism

First-hand testimony of people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era. The voices collected…

19.00
Hotel Brufani

The lost world of communism

Hope

In his Sunday column in La Repubblica Eugenio Scalfari recently reflected on Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore, Noi by Walter Veltroni…

21.00
Teatro Morlacchi

Hope