10.00 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Awards ceremony - A story still to tell: Enzo Baldoni
with Raffaele Baldoni, Oliviero Bergamini, Dante Ciliani, Claudio Moschin, Pino Scaccia and Giuliana Sgrena
With a first prize of 2,500 euros in both the written and video categories, the competition is open to all Italian university students.
11.30 - Hotel Brufani, Piazza Italia 12, Perugia
Penne à la carte – an invitation to food journalism
with Francesca Alliata Bronner, Bruno Gambacorta, Davide Paolini and Alex Renton
“Our food correspondent is away on assignment. At lunch. Again.” What professional skills are necessary to inform readers and viewers about good food and drink?
11.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Il giornalismo sociale and Sotto pressione
with Gerardo Bombonato, Martin Enrico Iglesias, Stefano Marcelli, Stefano Neri, Mauro Sarti, and Stefano Trasatti
Book presentation; Il Giornalismo Sociale by Mauro Sarti and Sotto Pressione - il Giornalismo in Colombia prigioniero di guerriglia, narcotraffico, paramilitari e governo by Stefano Neri and Martin Enrico Ilgesias
15.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Press freedom and human rights
with Ahmat Zeidane Bichara, Cai Chongguo, Enzo Nucci, Mauro Sarti and Jeta Xharra
Human rights, democracy, press freedom. Whichever way you mix them the interdependence is self-evident. A free press is essential to democratic society – political rights and civil liberties can be guaranteed if and only if all those intrusive, irreverent and loud members of the fourth estate are left to get on with their job.
18.00 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Satirical journalism – or the beauty of caricature, irony and parody
with Emilio Giannelli, Michael Heath, Enrico Vaime and Philippe Val
The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin, Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell, The Tin Drum (1959) by Gunter Grass, Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller, Dr Strangelove (1964) by Stanley Kubrick and Matt Groening’s The Simpsons. Satire just won’t go away. But what is its secret? Why is it so effective? And what are its limits?
19.30 - Teatro Pavone, corso Vannucci 19, Perugia
Book presentation
with Oliviero Bergamini, Robert Fisk and Giovanni Porzio
The Great War for Civilisation - the conquest of the Middle East (2005), an eyewitness testimony of the horrors of war and an analysis of the long history of invasion, occupation, colonization and war in the region, and Cronache dalle Terre di Nessuno. Sedici anni da inviato sulla linea del fuoco. Guerra, informazione, propaganda (2007), an account of 20 years of first hand experience of wars and conflict zones, revealing the mechanisms of disinformation and how the role of the war reporter has been transformed.