Fanpage: Italian website that went from gossip to award-winning scoops
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This is so Italy it hurts. A group of journalists investigates a possible collusion between the mafia and politicians, and the police raids the journalists' office instead.
That's not really Italy. Peak Italy would be police raiding journalists with actually good reasons because published evidence was obtained illegally. Indeed, wiretapped evidence routinely get published in breach of the law.
You clearly have no idea on what you are talking about.
I am not a leftist but I do appreciate good reporting from the whole political spectrum, including often the Guardian. Still, I wouldn't touch the steaming pile of BS that Fanpage is with a ten-foot pole!
> The story sent shock waves through the political establishment and helped make fanpage.it what it is today: one of Italy’s most successful news sites.
The Guardian is making the case that the most successful = good journalism, great scoops etc. which sounds a bit off to me.
Here's a rather interesting one: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/collection/wwfsecretwar
It’s like Exxon donating a pittance to an environmental protection fund and calling it even.
I wish we would stop giving them credit for “helping” when they’re the ones causing and profiting from the damage in the first place.
BuzzFeed News is indeed a very different beast to BuzzFeed proper.
For instance: https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/an-undercover-investigation...
>”Readers began to deliver pizzas to our office as a gesture of gratitude for what we had done.”
I bet those were good pizzas!
I'm still happy they exist and are succeeding, but i feel that real investigative jouranlism is dying in Italy. With the fall of newspaper sales most outlets are just incentivized to publish low quality clickbait, or government propaganda if they live off of government grants.
The point is that it's not exactly news that at right wing rallies you can find racists. It's not exactly award winning journalism in my opinion.
I'm a security researcher and am learning Italian with the goal of being able to speak at a conference there in the next year or two. As my language skills improve I've been trying to find some good cybersecurity and long form reporting as well as Instagram/Twitter users to follow to force Italian into my daily life and hopefully begin picking up technical jargon and colloquialisms. Anything you could point to would be greatly appreciated -- especially if there is an Italian equivalent of HN.
Internazionale.it writes that it "publishes weekly the best of newspapers around the world" - nonetheless, it seems to also be a positive intellectual source: it seems to contain original articles, selected translations (good for the selection effort: I just read a superb pick from Al Jazeera), but also compilative articles that discuss and integrate international journalistic interventions about specific topics - so, there are authors that present a topic through abridging the best articles about it (see https://www.internazionale.it/notizie/alessandro-lubello/202... ).
It has RSS at http://www.internazionale.it/sitemaps/rss.xml
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Marginal note: in January 2020, the printed version of Internazionale reported, I believe in the coverpage, that a concerned government of Italy formally complained against China about obscurity in the virus spread that hit the Middle Kingdom, which reportedly replied "do not make a fuss about this petty thing".
It has RSS at https://www.valigiablu.it/feed/
E.g. my local library system (here in US) uses PressReader and it has the Corriere (one of the major Italian newspapers) as well as 'Gazzetta dello Sport', 'Libero', 'Il Foglio', 'Il Tempo', '24 Ore' (economy news, similar to FT, down to the page color), etc.
Most daily newspapers would typically have weekly sections on specific topics, e.g. Corriere has 'Scienza e ambiente' etc. As for technical jargon, on the magazine front and on the same site, you can find the Italian edition of Wired as well as several other magazines on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.
Specifically relevant for your use-case, one of the monthly magazines is 'Hacker Journal'.
Having said that, the UX of the PressReader site is workable but not great (you can get the 'full fidelity' view but it requires a lot of scrolling around to read, or you can use a 'text' view that is more accessible).
Several issues seem to be on archive.org so you don't even need a library account for that: https://archive.org/details/hackerjournal_italian.
Treccani, at treccani.it
Not perfect content wise, nor technically - missing RSS. Nonetheless, in general involving vetted, non "random" (lacking quality, as seems to be typical) writers.
> Right now I just follow Repbl
I had the misfortune to stumble into that disgrace on or around 3 Mar 2020, where during a search engine generic search a title from that undead was returned, and it read: "Coronavirus: seven regions hit, 27 million italians". Read the title, re-read the date. See what you get from that. Careful with your sources, because in some countries journalism is well below ground level, and digging.
It's pretty clear to figure out what is their end-game, and it's not just a redirection from shallow subjects such as the fashion world and teenagers stuff, to more "serious" topics.
Agreed, if the establishment locks you out it’s impossible to do your job, so it’s difficult to bite the hand that feeds you
> journalists hate truth tellers and fearless journalists like Julian Assange
Huh? Assange and Snowden published with the help of several major newspapers
> demand censorship on Internet platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebok with their corporate "factcheckers" in tow as muzzlers
Journalists asking for censoring other journalists from YouTube? Where!?
There is a constant drumbeat from the NYT, WASPO, corporate media crowd for platforms to "do more to combat misinformation".
Heck, I read in some of them about how some important people done really bad things in the past, all with valid evidence from trusted sources, and no media faced them up.