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Friday 11 April

07.10 and 08.40
Review of the day’s newspapers
with Duilio Giammaria

Live daily TV review of the day’s newspapers and discussion of selected news stories with festival speakers on the leading RAI 1 morning show Unomattina.

08.30 - Hotel Brufani, Piazza Italia 12, Perugia
Review of the day’s newspapers
with Luca Bottura

Live daily national radio review of the day’s newspapers on the leading Radio Capital morning show Lateral.

10.00 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Interview
Alastair Campbell interviewed by Beppe Severgnini

Alastair Campbell, chief press secretary of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003, interviewed by Beppe Severgnini

11.30 - Hotel Brufani, Piazza Italia 12, Perugia
University newspapers for aspiring journalists
with Luca de Biase and Cristina Tagliabue

14.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
News, journalism, newspapers: same past, different futures?
with Angelo Agostini, Roy Greenslade, Bachi Karkaria and Bertrand Pecquerie

In Memoriam: the Newspaper 1607-2015 Rest In Peace? Or instead a newspaper industry revitalised by the challenges and opportunities opened up by user-generated content, online editions and an increasingly globalised readership?

15.00 - Hotel Brufani, Piazza Italia 12, Perugia
Oxygen, science for all
with Vittorio Bo, Marco Cattaneo, Gianluca Comin, Giuseppe O. Longo, Michael Specter

Growing attention across the media towards scientific issues and their impact on everyday life has been evident in recent years. The challenge for scientific journalism is to explain in simple terms the wonders of the scientific world without underplaying their complexity. The case of the periodical Oxygen.

16.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Italy on the inside seen from the outside
with Davide Berretta, Sabina Castelfranco, Christopher Dickey and Sergey Startsev

Italy is a country of unique beauty, vitality and promise. Italy is a country in relative decline, hampered by the intrusion of politics into all areas of civic life and by a palpable absence of meritocracy and accountability. Yes, no, both, neither?

18.00 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Tales from the Middle East
with Dario Biocca, Christopher Dickey, Robert Fisk and Francesca Paci

The Middle East remains a cauldron of violence, mutual distrust and unresolved problems. Can the media ever provide balance and objectivity to such a highly emotive issue?

19.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Book presentation
with Lirio Abbate, Angelo Agostini, Peter Gomez and Alexander Stille

Lirio Abate, an acknowledged expert on Sicily and the Mafia, and Peter Gomez, one of the top Italian investigative journalists, deploy a wide range of previously unpublished material to show the links between Bernardo Provenzano, the top Mafia gangster arrested in Sicily in 2006, and certain elements within the Italian political system.

21.00 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Khiam, southern Lebanon. Anatomy of a bomb
with Flaviano Masella and Maurizio Torrealta

An investigative documentary triggered by high radioactivity levels measured in a bomb crater in the village of Khiam, southern Lebanon. Testing by the Harwell nuclear laboratory, one of the most authoritative research centres in the world, revealed that (...)

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