International Journalism Festival

Festival 2009: a great success

2009-04-14T10:52:59Z

The 2009 festival was fantastic, with excellent speakers, huge audiences and wide media coverage. A big thanks to all involved, including the many festival volunteers who gave proceedings a real buzz. The festival e-zine (see main menu), written in Italian, English, Spanish, Portugese and (...)

Laura Ling released!

2009-03-30T07:51:36Z

The festival organisation is delighted to hear the news that Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been released. We wish them a speedy recovery from their ordeal.
American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were arrested in March 2009 while filming near the North Korea-China border. The two (...)

Reuters: Bearing Witness and Our World Now

2009-03-29T07:00:00Z

Reuters, the largest news agency in the world, will present Our World Now, a book of the finest Reuters photos of 2008, and the video documentary entitled Bearing Witness: five years of the Iraq war (click here to see the video) on the stark reality of war reporting.
In April 2009 Reuters (...)

The female view

2009-03-27T07:00:00Z

The exhibition brings together the work of two young photojournalism stars and an overview of Italian newspapers and periodicals for women of the 19th and early 20th twentieth century.
Axelle de Russé
China, the return of the concubine
In China, the status of a man was once measured by the (...)

Festival brochure

2009-03-23T13:31:39Z

The 2009 English-language festival brochure is now online. The brochure is perhaps the best way to fully get to grips with what the festival offers; an easy-to-read day-by-day programme, abbreviated speaker list, festival media partners and much more. To download the brochure please click (...)

Festival 2009

2009-03-19T07:00:00Z

Top names, stunning location, free entry, networking heaven.
The annual Perugia International Journalism Festival is the leading journalism event in Italy. It is an open invitation to listen to and network with the best of world journalism. The leitmotiv is one of informality and (...)

Seymour Hersh

2009-03-18T07:00:00Z

The 2009 festival keynote speech will be given by Seymour Hersh of the leading American weekly The New Yorker on Saturday 04 April 2009. He first came to prominence with his reports on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1969 and more recently broke the news on the treatment by American soldiers (...)

Sports journalism: a multimedia future

2009-03-17T07:00:00Z

From fantasy football to fantasy sports media. A galaxy of world stars unite for the first time to form a mouth-watering team to take on all aspects of sports journalism, with particular focus on multimedia integration. Ninety minutes of thrills and spills guaranteed. The winner? The audience. (...)

Missionary journalism, visionary media?

2009-03-16T07:00:00Z

How to give a voice to those who may never have had one and how to make a real difference to people's lives and to a community's sense of itself. Journalism at its most empowering? And most rewarding?
Emil Blaser founder and director of Radio Veritas, Johannesburg
Giuseppe (...)

Vanguard journalists: overreal, overdue and over here

2009-03-15T07:00:00Z

Vanguard is the groundbreaking original journalism series of Current US. Unlike traditional news outlets, Vanguard is specifically aimed at younger viewers who seek a more in-depth, personal experience. Come along and meet the Vanguard team, made up of young, intelligent, fearless reporters on (...)

Can you trust the media?

2009-03-14T07:00:00Z

The Mohammed Al-Dura case. A short TV news report. Iconic imagery. Violent consequences. Doubts about authenticity. Lawsuits. Freedom of expression versus freedom from unfounded accusations. The media establishment against the individual. Who should you believe? Who should you trust? The case (...)

Public opinion: does it still exist?

2009-03-13T07:00:00Z

Once upon a time, that supreme moral arbiter public opinion could make or break you. But has so-called public opinion now fragmented to such a degree that practically anything has become OK, provided you possess enough schmaltz to get away with it? If so, good or bad? And because the media was (...)

Women in the media: leadership deferred?

2009-03-12T07:00:00Z

It seems easier for a woman to become US Secretary of State than reach the top of a European media organisation. Why? Is the newsroom glass ceiling still so firmly in place? And once in charge, do women at the top produce substantive change in news presentation/priorities?
Alexandra (...)

The Middle East (media) conflict

2009-03-10T07:00:00Z

Ayman Mohyeldin was the only foreign journalist in Gaza during the recent conflict. Half-truths, propaganda and censorship saw unprecedented action as the media war raged on. Meanwhile, a new battlefield weapon was being deployed: Twitter.
Yizhar Be'er executive director of the (...)

Fifty People One Question in Perugia

2009-03-09T07:00:00Z

New Orleans, New York, London, Perugia. Benjamin Reece, young video-maker from New Orleans, will shoot his latest Fifty People One Question video in Perugia during the festival. One simple question to fifty people stopped at random in the street: what would you like to happen today? The answers (...)