One week ago the International Journalism Festival held in Perugia, Italy came to an end. 

The festival, which was organised for the first time in 2007 by journalist Arianna Ciccone and Chris Potter, is an annual miracle for a country like Italy, whose media landscape is sadly known for being state controlled, biased and mainly focused on national…

When some weeks ago I read on Corriere della Sera, one of the main Italian national dailies, that a report about "Generation .0" (the nickname the publication gave to the people in their twenties to make it sound cooler than what it really is) was due to be launched soon, I thought it was…

As any good freelancer knows, it is a good habit to go and visit your editors personally whenever you have a chance to be in your home country. So I am just back from a tour of the newsrooms I work/have worked with in Milan, Italy, and the mood is rather gloomy. Empty seats and switched-off computers, dramatic cuts in working time, forced retirements, those who still cling on to their seats working desperately to achieve at least the same quality as before.

Even the editor in chief of…