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The Ilaria Alpi Prize, established
in 1995, is an initiative organised by the cultural association Comunità Aperta. The Prize is dedicated to
Ilaria Alpi, the Italian journalist killed in Mogadishu in 1994, together with the cameraman Miran Hrovatin. Ilaria Alpi
carried out her profession with rare dedication and sense of ethics and the Awards was born for enhancing the
report journalism, connected with a
deep and reliable television information, able to examine closely,
to seek the truth at any price, to investigate and intertwine
the sense of facts, to help and reflect upon the events.
It is a prize aiming at valuing a clear and intelligent information,
capable of studying facts in depth and of courage,
so as to promote that journalism which is always able
to find out and tell any possible truth.
The Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Award is promoted by the Presidency of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Council,
the Municipality of Riccione and the Province of Rimini in collaboration with the Italian Radio and Television broadcasting service (RAI),
the Emilia Romagna Press Association and with the Sponsorship of the President of Italy, of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
and of Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission.
The Ilaria Alpi Award involves all the most important Italian, national and regional broadcasting services
thanks to the collaboration with the Press Association of each region and includes, besides several moments of debates,
a competition for television reports which deal with topics of civil and social engagement (peace, justice, non-violence, solidarity).
The programmes are evaluated on the basis of the content and their journalistic value, and therefore, the lack of technologically advanced instrumentation
does not play any role.
An award - named after Miran Hrovatin - is dedicated to cameramen, the programmes
being rated for the quality of the proposed images.
The main exponents of the Italian journalism take part in the Jury of the Prize, chaired by Italo Moretti:
Clemente Mimun (Tg1 chief-editor), Mauro Mazza (Tg2 chief-editor), Ettore Mo (correspondent of Corriere della Sera), Roberto Morrione (Rai News24 chief-editor),
Antonio Di Bella (Tg3 chief-editor) Luca Ajroldi (TMC News past chief-editor), Alessandro Banfi (Tg5 assistant chief-editor), Claudio Brachino
(Studio Aperto assistant chief-editor), Emilio Fede (Tg4 chief-editor), Giovanna Lio (TgLa7 assistant chief-editor), Angela Buttiglione (Tgr Rai chief-editor),
Romano Tamberlich (Tg1 past chief-editor), Sandro Ruotolo (Sciuscià assistant chief-editor), Paolo Meucci (Tg2 Dossier consultant) and for the Award Miran Hrovatin
the cameraman Stefano Paolillo, Marziano Lomiri, Gianfranco Rados.
A Special Award is also provided for reporting carried out by journalists younger than
32 years of age (the age of Ilaria Alpi when she was murdered). This prize is awarded by a jury exclusively composed by students
of secondary schools and universities. Since 2002 edition, the Award also also took advantage of the collaboration
of Italian television critics, who picked out five reports each, which could also have been realised by journalists
not participating in the competition. The most frequently chosen report obtained the Critic’s Award.
The reports received are collected in the archives of the Ilaria Alpi Observatory.
The archives are open to the public with particular reference to schools and young groups interested in social themes.
The reports could be shown and displayed for didactic, seminary and study purposes, and therefore form an important patrimony for schools.
Some initiatives for studies and reflection in line with
the journalism which is proposed, are held in concomitance with the competition.
Several themes were faced in those meetings: from press freedom, which every year plays a central role,
to the work of war correspondents, from the use of new technologies to the sensationalism of certain news
spread only to surprise, from forgotten wars to the globalised information.
In every case a special attention was dedicated to social matters, solidarity, non -violence and culture.
Among others, many international guests took part in the round tables held during
the last editions, such as Christiane Amanpour, a CNN journalist,
Johan Op De Beeck, the director of the Euronews editorial office, Salima Ghezali,
the director of La Nation, Kizito Sesana, the Africa News founder, Robert Menard,
the director of Reporters sans Frontières, Veran Matic previous editor of Radio B92,
Julie Flint from BBC, Ibrahim Helal, Newsroom Chief Editor of Aljazeera Satellite Channel, and many others.
The Award is held every year in Riccione at the Palazzo
del Turismo, during the first week of June.
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