“There are moments in our biography, not public and collective, where the only way to deal with tragedies that seem insurmountable is to look to shape a better future. ” Along these lines, editor-in-chief Stefano Feltri today launches the First Edition of the new Italian liberal newspaper, Domani (tomorrow) . This is an unprecedented addition to the councheck out information landscape, expanding the list of other newly born or reissued publications. in recent years, such as the news site Open. online and Il Riformista.
With a media sector in monetary difficulties (recently, Covid-19 has contributed to media expansion with readers and audiences, whether online, in press and television, but not so much with advertising revenue), the launch of a new editorial product welcome through all Italian hounds and many political figures. “I wish Domani, a new newspaper is born and that’s smart news. Because as voices and spaces of data and confrontation grow, so do pluralism and democracy. Good task in the total newsroom, ” tweeted Democratic Party leader Nicola Zingaretti. “Good luck to Domani, don’t leave us out of control. It serves democracy and all of us,” said European Affairs Minister Enzo Amendola.
Domani has a thin, giant figure and the scenes are a 17-member writing room. His political orientation is “to protect the motives of liberal democracy, where most make decisions, but respecting all minorities,” in Feltri’s words (in the past he worked as deputy director of Il Fatto Quotidiano). It is stated that the document will pay particular attention to “inequalities, a genuine impediment to an effective and equitable economy”, and to the environment, “the innerest form of inequality, describing a dark destination for generations, cities, countries and industrialists. sectors,” the publisher said.
Domani was introduced and financed through Carlo De Benedetti, an industrialist and businessman (former billionaire of Forbes) who in the past owned the GEDI organization, which published some of Italy’s leading newspapers (including La Repubblica and La Stampa newspapers, the weekly L’Espresso and others) After a failed attempt through De Benedetti to reclaim the organization of his young people last year , GEDI’s assets were sold to the Agnelli-Elkann family, owner of car manufacturer Fiat and football club Juventus.
“After the launch phase, the moves will move to a base that will make certain resources and autonomy. The only goal of the company (and the foundation) is to make this diary,” Feltri writes. This is a novelty in the Italian media, where media owners often have a number of economic and political interests, which has an effect on the editorial perspective and the coverage of newspapers. “The base will guarantee the absolute independence of the newspaper,” De Benedetti recently told the Guardian. he added that the paper will focus on “the facts, not the talk. “
For its first edition today, Domani published on the cover an article on the reopening of schools in the country, written through an instructor and director of a school in the Bergamo region, the maximum affected by the virus in Italy. It’s not what I’ve noticed for weeks, when every morning I turned on my computer to remotely start elegance. Every day, six or seven young men in elegance informed me, “Last night they took my grandfather,” “I didn’t know anything about Grandma for days,” “My mom is locked in the room, because she also has him (the virus) “,” my uncle is dead and I’m afraid for my brother, because she has a high fever,” the writer writes. The start of the school year in Italy went through a long and problematic process, however, after months of closure, families, academics and instructors were more eager to return to school.
The newspaper then focuses on the big problems now raised in the country’s public debate: the late September autonomic elections, an ongoing primary investigation lately on the far-right Lega Nord party, and an interview with the mother. of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a young man of immigrant origin whose death (brutally beaten on racist grounds) touched the country.
“Newspapers exist if they have readers who buy them and subscribe online. We’ll also have ads, but we’ve chosen to have readers to walk loose to investigate and take position, any pressure. .
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