2023 Programme
Event #29
Sunday 3 September, 09.15 pm
piazza Matteotti1 - euro 4,50
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Francesco Costa
Wonderfully informed
Sources of information are increasing, as well as the news and opinions to which we are exposed, whether we like it or not. Yet we feel confused, strained. TV news is driven by the logic of entertainment. The press is desperately going through an industrial and professional crisis. The web and social media seem like a jungle in which it is impossible to know who is worth trusting. The media's search for our attention is more and more based on the attempt to spark a feeling of wonder: sensationalism, strange-but-true, fake news, clickbaits. In the meantime, we get easily distracted and cannot recognise the false from the true. Sometimes we would like to protect ourselves from the news, but the historical moment just does not allow it. So what shall we do? We are not hopeless. Getting better informed is possible.
Francesco Costa (1984) is a journalist and assistant editor of the Post. As an expert on US politics, he has often worked as special correspondent. From 2015 to 2020, he has curated the project Da Costa a Costa, one of the first and most appreciated journalistic podcasts in Italy. On TV, he was author and presenter of the miniseries The American Way, for DAZN, and host of the in-depth programme Cinamerica, on RaiTre. Since 2021 he has been hosting the daily podcast Morning, which collected four awards at the Italian Podcast Awards in 2021. In 2022, he won the Premiolino Award. The New Yorker called him 'a new media phenomenon capable of modernising the role of the journalist in Italian civil society'. With Mondadori he published Questa è l'America (2020), Una storia americana (2021) and California (2022).
ph. credits: Claudio Sforza
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