When Westerners think of internet censorship in China, they usually picture a Big Brother-like world, where innocuous characters such as Winnie The Pooh and Peppa Pig can be blocked…
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Valentina Cipriani Posts
While planning my trip to Iceland, I wasn’t much interested in Iceland. I was writing a postgraduate thesis that honestly was sucking the life out of me when a…
The “darkest night of the Italian State” happened 40 years ago. Political leader Aldo Moro and journalist Giuseppe “Peppino” Impastato were both murdered on 9 May 1978, the first…
“My obsession with cemeteries began as a young child,” says Jeane Trend Hill, a blonde woman whose welcoming smile makes it difficult to guess her occupation. She defines herself…
Thousands of expats living in London have been competing for months to buy the cheapest Ryanair flights and have a chance to visit their family during the Easter holiday.…
I grew up with my grandfather’s incessant stories about the Second World War. The War, as he called it. He would go on for hours talking about how, when…
News package made with Alessia Manzoni.
This piece was part of a Digital Journalism project for university that required a social media video to go with it. The global youth unemployment crisis is no news,…
Huge, crowded, multicultural London. A solid chunk of what happens in the Western world pass through here. I could endlessly write about the culture, the arts, the parks or…
Editorial: Investigative journalism should be publicly funded – here is why
“News is something someone wants suppressed. Anything else is advertising.” Sooner or later every journalism student in the world has heard this quote, even though nobody seems really sure…