Enemy of the people? The role of the media in an era of rising authoritarianism
Sab 12 aprile 2025
11:30 - 12:20
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The media plays a critical role in upholding democracy: presenting facts, promoting civic engagement and holding power to account. Despite journalists’ best efforts, we continue to see an alarming trend of authoritarian leaders being democratically elected. These leaders often discredit and attack journalists, using the law as a weapon to intimidate and silence. Time after time, we see their dismissal of good journalism going hand in hand with a rise in twisted facts and harmful disinformation. With increased polarisation and authoritarian leaders swaying the public vote, does traditional media still work? What do you do when audiences stop caring about the facts? How do you speak to those who see you as out of touch? In this session, we will discuss a path forward for navigating these challenges while asking an essential question: what change is needed?
Moderated by Antonio Zappulla.
Organised in association with Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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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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Patrícia Campos Mello is a reporter-at-large and columnist at Folha de São Paulo newspaper. For over 25 years, she has been covering international relations, economics and human rights, and has reported from over 50 countries. She was awarded the Columbia University Maria Moors Cabot award in 2020, the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2019, the Vladimir Herzog Special Award for Democracy and Justice in 2019, the International Committee of the Red Cross Prize for Humanitarian Journalism in 2017, the King of Spain Journalism Prize in 2018, and the Petrobras Prize in 2017 and 2018 (the main award in Brazil). In 2020, she was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite by the French president Emmanuel Macron. In the same year, she published the best-selling book A máquina do ódio - notas de uma repórter sobre fake news e violência digital (Companhia das Letras), about disinformation campaigns by populist leaders in Brazil, India and the US, intimida...
Damian Collins
Damian Collins is a former UK government Minister for Tech and the Digital Economy, with responsibility for online harms, digital competition and AI safety. He was Chair of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee, where he led major inquiries into social media disinformation and the impact of addictive and immersive technologies. Damian also Chaired the Joint Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons which led the scrutiny of the UK’s Online Safety Act. In 2018 Damian launched and became the first Chair of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News which brought together over thirty parliamentarians from more than a dozen countries to hold big tech companies to account. Damian was a Conservative Party member of the UK House of Commons from 2010 to 2024. He is also a board member of the Center for Countering Digital Hate and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University, Canada. Damian writes on politics and technology for the New European and is the author of a biography of former UK Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George seized power, won the war and lost his government, which was published by Bloomsbury in 2024. In May 2025, Damian is also the Festival Director for the inaugural Fleet Street Festival of Words, London’s newest literary festival. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2023, for political and public service in the United Kingdom.
Ritu Kapur
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