On Monday, November 11, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, the webinar “Impact Journalism: stories that make a difference” will take place. This is the third webinar organized as part of the Torino Impact Journalism initiative, sponsored by Social Impact Agenda for Italy.
The event will feature journalists and experts who will discuss impact journalism experiences on both national and international levels, exploring how to integrate approaches and strategies into daily journalistic practices.
Among the Italian journalists committed to exploring alternative approaches to traditional journalism is Alberto Puliafito: director, media analyst, and co-founder of Slow News, Italy’s first slow journalism project, where he serves as director.
Alberto Puliafito is also co-founder of IK Produzioni, through which he produces documentaries and audiovisual content for all kinds of platforms. Along with Valerio Bassan, he created Supercerchio, an independent strategy studio that helps brands, creators, and media companies enhance, innovate, and monetize their digital presence.
With a background in biomedical engineering, he now studies intercultural communication and is heavily involved in training, journalistic coverage, and experimentation related to artificial intelligence. He is the author of “Artificiale,” a newsletter for Internazionale about artificial intelligence, and “The Slow Journalist,” a newsletter focused on the media world. He has also written several books, the latest being “In principio era ChatGP – Intelligenze artificiali per testi, immagini, video e quel che verrà”, published by Apogeo.
Slow News: The community that informs you (and itself)
Slow News was born in 2014 from the idea of four friends: Alberto Puliafito, Alessandro Diegoli, Andrea Spinelli Barrile, and Andrea Coccia. After many years of working in the digital journalism field, they decided to change the rules of the game and go independent. Today, Slow News is a sustainable journalism project based on a direct, two-way relationship with the community of readers who support it.
They also led an international project that lasted four years, during which they visited over ten newsrooms in the United States and Europe. This journey resulted in the documentary Slow News, a collective film that explores the lives, challenges, and ideas of those striving to make a difference through a journey across Europe and the United States.
Slowing down for journalism closer to people
Over the years, together with a team of journalists, they have worked to build a community that now includes thousands of people, with the goal of actively promoting diversity within the Italian journalism landscape. Slow News covers topics like the environment, culture, economics, media, politics, and much more, maintaining an open and inclusive approach to tell the world’s stories from different—and always new—points of view.
We can indeed define Slow News as a network of people that has developed over time, producing information in many diverse, often unconventional ways, expressing a radical perspective on the most important issues of our times. The project stems from the belief that it’s necessary to slow down and build networks to contribute to journalism that is more helpful to people.
