Journalists Celebrate with Tra i Leoni
Masters of articles, small and large investigative reports, criticisms and plaudits in Italian and English. Tra i Leoni, the Bocconi student newspaper, has been around for 15 academic years. It's celebrating this anniversary on 20 May, with the conference "Scrap Paper: Journalism in 2013," a discussion with four famous names in Italian journalism: Antonio Calabrò, Marco Pratellesi, Gianni Riotta and Filippo Solibello. With them will be Matteo Erede, who is currently part of the teaching faculty in Commercial Law at the University and who was the first lead editor of the current version of Tra i Leoni back in 1997. That was when the newspaper changed from being a representative newspaper to being a student-run newspaper.
"People say that paper newspapers are undergoing a crisis. The impression that we have is that journalism, real journalism that we try to imitate as best we can, is not kicking the bucket, but is simply changing form," explains Sergio Rinaudo, current lead editor of Tra i Leoni. "Its new identity, which at times is too fast and immediate and not always true, has revolutionized the way information is produced. The title "Scrap Paper" means just this: in a world in which the means of communication loses importance, journalism itself, though evolving, is in good health."
On 20 May, journalists and journalism, the future of one of the oldest trades in the world and how the world is examined will be discussed (click here to see the video created by students who work on the newspaper to promote the event). "Tra i Leoni is a good representation of the social and psychological evolution from our generation and today's generation," says Matteo Erede. "The newspaper that students produce today is much nicer than ours, as the content and form has developed along with the profile of Bocconians. In addition, technology makes things much easier." What were the issues when Matteo began? "At the time we discussed the 3+2 university reform, a vain ambition to investigate the internal workings at Bocconi, but in general light topics. One big issue was the university taking its first steps to open up to the international world."
At the end of the conference, refreshments will be offered by RedBull.