International Journalism Festival

FREE ENTRY The festival is free entry for all attendees for all sessions on a first-come-first-served basis, without any need for registration. Just come to Perugia and enjoy the festival. 

PROGRAMME Here is the 2023 English-language festival brochure in an easy-to-read flip format. Alternatively, you can download it in PDF. Here is the festival speakers page, with the session(s) of each speaker listed at the bottom of their profile. And here is the festival programme, which can be divided into content categories or venues for ease of reading. There is one last-minute addition to the festival programme: #IStandWithEvan: Free Evan Gershkovich, scheduled in the lunchtime slot of 13.00-13.45 on Saturday 22 April. Note that this session is not in the festival brochure.

SIDE EVENTS PROGRAMME Social gatherings (drinks receptions, dinners, etc) and work-related meetups (of various kinds) are listed in the Side Events programme. Note that this programme will continue to be updated until the day before the start of the festival. The intention is to indicate to festival attendees and speakers what’s going on off-programme and to provide off-programme event organisers with an effective way of communicating with the festival community.

WELCOME POINT Are you looking for information or a festival brochure? The festival Welcome Point (open daily from 09.00 to 19.00) is in the Hotel Brufani in Piazza Italia, Perugia.

Psst: we spotted different conferences on disinformation so you don’t have to:

Wednesday 19 April:

• 12:00 – 13:00 – Hotel Brufani, Sala Raffaello: Google News Initiative: new tools to find and verify news stories
• 14:00 – 16:00 – Hotel Brufani, Sala Raffaello: AI and disinformation
• 15:00 – 16-00 : Hotel Brufani, Sala Raffaello: How to navigate in the disinformation tempest

Thursday 20 April:

• 12:00 – 12:50 – Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori: Transparency journalism: is it the key to public trust?
• 16:00 – 16:50 – Auditorium San Francesco al Prato: How the far-right is going global

Friday 21 April:

• 12:00 – 12:50 – Sala Brugnoli, Plazzo Cesaroni: Why trust is urgent: the toxic cocktail of disinfo and hate
• 15:00 – 15:50 – Auditorium San Francesco al Prato: Fighting gendered disinformation: how women journalists stand up to dictators, shadowy foreign agents and digital conspiracy networks
• 16:00 – 16:50 – Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni: Disinformation, censorship and the eternal search for truth
• 16:00 – 16:50 – Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni: Fightine misinformation online: pre-bunking workshop
• 19:30 – 20:30 – Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello: Scientific sources: how to identify them

Saturday 22 April:

• 10:00 – 10:50 – Sale delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziano: Google News Initiative: new tools to find and verify news stories
• 14:00 – 14:50 – Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani: Investigating media manipulation
• 17:00 – 17:50 – Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello: Truth decay: science misinformation and journalistic responses

Sunday 23 April:

• 10:45 – 11:45 – Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello: Supremacists, negationists, conspiracy theorists: the Republican Party heading for 2024