At the cutting edge of local news: hear from the innovators making things work

Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo

Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.

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Melissa Bell

Melissa Bell is the CEO of Chicago Public Media, the largest nonprofit local news organization in the nation. Bell is also the co-founder of Vox, the industry-changing explanatory news network launched in 2014 to bring context and clarity to the news. Under her leadership, Vox became an award-winning multi-platform newsroom with over 11 million subscribers to its YouTube channel and an audio slate that includes the flagship daily news show Today Explained, one of the nation’s top 20 podcasts. Recently, Today Explained made its debut on public radio, where it reaches 1 million weekly listeners in addition to its podcast audience. Prior to Chicago Public Media, Bell served at Vox Media, Vox’s parent company, as its publisher beginning in 2016, overseeing the company’s editorial brands and playing a critical role in shepherding Vox Media’s merger with New York Magazine, along with their premium brands of Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. The merger brought together 13 distinct newsrooms that collectively have earned 50+ National Magazine Awards, 20 James Beard Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and a News & Documentary Emmy. She also helped with the acquisition of Group Nine’s portfolio of brands, including The Dodo, NowThis, and Thrillist. During her tenure, the company launched its premium brand content design studio, The Explainer Studio, its top-ten podcast network Vox Media Podcast Network, and its television studio, Vox Media Studios, fueled by Vox’s successful Netflix Show Explained, and HBO’s Level Playing Field. Prior to starting Vox, Bell was the Director of Platforms at The Washington Post where she was the newsroom lead on the development of what would become the Post’s successful software service, ARC XP. Prior to that, she was one of the top-read writers at the Washington Post as a blogger and a columnist for their Style section. In 2007, Bell was part of the founding team at Mint newspaper, which has since become the second-largest business newspaper in India.

Catarina Carvalho

Catarina Carvalho is the founder of Mensagem de Lisboa, a local community new media in Lisboa. And what a ride it has been, connecting the city dots, telling stories and contributing to “empathy” in the city. Mensagem has been serving communities throughout the city and focusing on underprivileged groups. Catarina was previously a media executive in traditional media in Portugal. She is on the board of the World Editors Forum (Wan-Ifra), is a PhD student, and was a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute in Oxford.

Madhav Chinnappa

Madhav Chinnappa is a senior executive consultant who has worked at the intersection of news, technology, AI and sustainability globally for more than two decades in both the commercial and public service sectors. He has extensive experience with journalism funding and sustainability having launched the DNI Fund, the GNI Innovation Challenge programme and the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund while at Google. He has worked in the news industry since 1994 - first in the launch team of Associated Press Television (APTV), a year in M&A at United News & Media and spent over nine years at BBC News, latterly as Head of Development & Rights. He is currently leading a thought leadership event series around AI and news for the Thomson Foundation.

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