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Dear all,
This is to announce an upcoming Italian research seminar at UCL that can interest many. Please, spread the word!
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 6:00 p.m.
UCL,
Cruciform B304 – LT1
JOHN LLOYD
(Financial Times; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; La Repubblica of Rome) and
CRISTINA MARCONI (freelance journalist)
will speak on
THE LOST HONOUR IF ITALIAN JOURNALISM: HOW THE COUNTRY’S MEDIA SECTOR CAN RESTORE ITS REPUTATION AND FACE THE NEW CHALLENGES AHEAD
When it comes to freedom of the press, Italy ranks 57th in the world, according to
Reporters sans Frontières. Yet Italian citizens have access to many respected national newspapers, several TV channels, a lively scene of information websites, a multiplicity of newswires and radios, and, possibly, more political talk shows than most
other countries. How can such a situation be considered as being only ‘partly free’? With a media tycoon having run the country for the majority of the last 20 years, Italian journalism has seen its reputation dragged through the mire. Will it be restored
now that Berlusconi’s power is declining? How is the country’s media landscape coping with the ongoing hard economic crisis? Tracing an history of journalism it Italy and analysing the way reporters currently operate, the two speakers will try to give an answer
to these questions.
ALL WELCOME
For information on where the Cruciform Building is and to see the full calendar of the UCL Italian Departmental Research Seminars please visit
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/italian/researchseminars
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Beatrice Sica