Anna Masera
Nexa Center for Internet & Society
Anna Masera is a member of the board of trustees of the Centro Nexa su Internet e Società al Politecnico di Torino and deputy web editor of the Giornale di Brescia. She was previously public editor of the Italian daily La Stampa, where she started working in 1999. She was also Director of the Masters Degree in Journalism (a two-year program) at the University of Turin. She graduated from Yale University with a BA in History in 1983 and from Columbia University with an MA in Journalism in 1984.
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At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...
The public editor role has long been an “endangered species” in global journalism. Why has this accountability and transparency role failed to take a stronger hold in journalism? Can we reimagine ...
So you've joined the Trust Project. Now the real work begins. How to marshall newsroom resources to optimize for trust. Is all this new work worth it? What can news organizations learn about working t...
We definitely need to upgrade the supply of journalism. But we equally need to upgrade *us* -- the "consumers" of media and other information, by also focusing on the demand side of the equation. Jour...
Come cambia (anche) il giornalismo nell’era dell’automazione, della iperconnessione e del dominio del tecnologicamente controllato? Quali conoscenze e competenze sono necessarie? Come ri-definire ...
The relationship between journalism and advertising has always been a two-way relationship; up-and-down but vital. The digital revolution has created the conditions for redefining this link, before th...
Presentation of the book Becoming the News. How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight by Ruth Palmer. Moderated by Anna Masera. What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named i...
Are all of our efforts to beat fake news creating worse problems than we are supposedly solving? Will any of the approaches even work? In this talk, Shane Greenup will argue that all of the popular s...
Following the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian Cambridge University PhD student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in January 2016, the Italian weekly L'Espresso created the web platform RegeniLeaks...
#ijf16talk by Mark Little. Moderated by Anna Masera.
Thanks to social media everyone can have an opinion and a voice, but should journalists get personal too? Emotional imagery and words are a great way to get traffic on social media or to get an aud...
The valid demand not to be subjected on the Internet to the restrictive rules of intrusive nations and bullying companies requires a definition of constitutional principles in order to guarantee the...
Angelo Agostini (1959-2014) was a leading figure in journalism studies and journalism training in Italy. He served for many years as editor of the thrice-yearly journalism review Problemi dell'infor...
Better to keep quiet: censorship, hypocrisy and lies about freedom of speech in Italy
Italy is a country where in order to open a blog it is necessary to obey a law dating from 1948, otherwise there is the risk of having to face a a criminal trial. We are a country where you cannot b...
Effective institutional health communication, the use of social media and apps, the digital culture within the public administration. A discussion with experts in the field. Social media and appl...
Social networks provide politicians and political institutions with the opportunity to get closer to citizens. So can we look forward to an extension of democratic involvement and a strengthening of t...
UNHCR will present how its daily work in refugee camps runs through a continuing search for innovative approaches and the need to communicate with people across the world raising the awareness about...
Privacy and ethics in the Italian journalistic profession. Organised in association with Ordine dei Giornalisti.
Who are the readers of the newspapers of tomorrow? Where do young people today get their news from? What are the main news channels of the web generation? Data from the annual Censis report on Italia...
Keynote speech by Emily Bell. She co-authored with C. W. Anderson and Clay Shirky in late 2012 the influential report on the future of digital media entitled Post-industrial journalism: adapting to ...
Journalists and communications professionals use the same tools and share the same skills; the ability to communicate on social networks, producing content, knowing how to manage the digital, having...
A consideration of how the the spread of the internet, technological innovation and a multiplicity of web tools have transformed the ways in which politicians and political parties communicate, buil...