Investigative journalism is an indispensable instrument of democracy. In Russia dozens of courageous journalists must deal with censure and threats on a daily basis in order to report what state med...

When it comes to women in politics (like Hilary Clinton) some parts of the Western media still give a perhaps surprising amount of attention to the way they are dressed and the number of wrinkles on...

The heavy hand of the Italian intelligence services on news distortion, manipulation, creation? Yet another great urban legend of our times? Or has major lunchtime plotting been going on?

In March 2011 The New York Times introduced a metered paywall similar to the system used for years by The Financial Times. In October 2012 the Swiss NZZ set up its own paywall. Many other newspapers...

“I’m off!” Travel journalism, couleur rose. Analysis and anecdotes from journalists who have made the new and the unknown their métier. Organised in association with Associazione Giornalisti...

Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI) is a new centre of investigative journalism based in Italy. It was set up along the lines of the best centres of investigative journalism worldwide. It h...

For five years, a economic-financial-democratic crisis has shaken Europe. Austerity, unemployment and political mistakes in the EU's timing and answers have created centrifugal forces which threat...

Women, morality, religion. Two years after the fall of Ben Ali, Tunisia is coming to terms with its dual personality: on the one hand secular and Westernized, on the other hand deeply Arab and Isl...

Remember the 2008 financial crash? One among many subsequent questions was why almost nobody in the media saw it coming. Fast forward to the March 2013 Italian general elections. Almost nobody in th...

The crisis of newspapers and the crisis of blogs. On the one hand, the difficulty of paper and digital integration and the problem of  interpretation and integration of social media. On the other h...