Dispatch From Italy: Citizen Journalism and YouReporter Making Waves
Did you know that in Italy, to be a practicing journalist, you take exams and get certified? That’s what my Roman friend, a senior digital editor at one of the country’s largest publishing groups told me over lunch this week during my Italian holiday. It’s like being a lawyer, or an architect. And while the practice of certifying journos still stands, even over here where traditions are hard to break, the industry has been disrupted.
Italy is still a country in which practicing independent journalism is a political, and not just entrepreneurial, act.
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