ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The future of information and the economic sustainability of publishing companies in the era of artificial intelligence return to the center of comparison to Città di Castello (Perugia). After last year’s appointment, the Corriere Group, publishing company of the Corriere dell’Umbria, the Corriere di Siena, the Corriere di Arezzo, the Corriere di Maremma and Radio Corriere dell’Umbria, promotes for Friday, November 13 a new national meeting with some of the main protagonists of the world of publishing and journalism.
The conference, entitled “Edition and information today: but who pays the news?”, will have as a central theme the sustainability of publishing companies to the proof of artificial intelligence and the overflow of large digital platforms. After the institutional greetings, the works will enter into live with two dialogues.
The first will see protagonists Ferruccio de Bortoli, journalist and already director of Corriere della Sera e del Sole 24 Ore, and Alessandra Ravetta, director of Prima Comunicazione, who will discuss the value of information, authoritativeness and trust in journalism in an era marked by the spread of false news and the transformation of media. The second dialogue will be between Alberto Leonardis, president of the Sae Group, and Sergio Casagrande, director of the Corriere dell’Umbria and the newspapers of the Corriere Group. At the heart of the discussion, the perspectives of the information industry, the economic difficulties of the sector and the strategies to defend and develop publishing companies.
The Sae Group is present in the national panorama with La Stampa, Il Tirreno, La Nuova Sardegna, La Provincia Pavese, La Nuova Ferrara, the Gazzetta di Modena and the Gazzetta di Reggio. Round tables will follow dedicated to the challenges of journalism, the new economic models of publishing and the transformations of national and local information, with the participation of publishers, directors, journalists, representatives of the publishing companies and experts of the new media.
Alberto Barachini, undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers with delegation to Information and publishing, will bring the government’s contribution to the comparison of the prospects of the sector. Particularly significant is the presence of representatives of publishing companies and the participation of directors, journalists and information experts.
Andrea Barchiesi, founder and CEO of Reputation Manager will also contribute to the comparison; Flavio Mucciante and Lorenzo Ottolenghi, respectively president and director of the School of Radio and Television Journalism of Perugia; Giuseppe Carboni, director of the Broadcasting Centre; Giovanni Parapini, head of the regional headquarters Rai dell’Umbria; Luca Ginetto, journalist Rai; and Gianni Scipione Rossi, journalist and writer.
The initiative will also be attended by the presidents of the Regions Tuscany and Umbria, Eugenio Giani and Stefania Proietti. The aim of the meeting is to compare different experiences and views on a question that concerns not only the future of publishing companies, but also that of free, authoritative and independent information.
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