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Week ending May 17, 2014

RCS MediaGroup - On 19 May,Corriere della Sera will be accessible to everyone - May 12, 2014
from Beatrice Minzioni/RCS MediaGroup

With a project unlike any other ever seen before in Italian publishing, Corriere della Sera will deliver a special issue of the newspaper entitled “L’Italia che ce la fa” to 20 million Italian households, as part of its project #Italiavoltapagina nationwide, a project that since 20 April has been featured on the newspaper’s website.

Produced by the most prominent authors of the newspaper and the most important contributors and bloggers, this special issue will examine the main staples of quality of our lives - work, family, school, health and environment – offering a combination of analyses and encouraging stories to tell of an Italy that in these years has not surrendered and has continued to invest in the future.

L’Italia che ce la fa” writes Editor-in-chief Ferruccio de Bortoli, is not an “artificially patriotic or purely solacing” project. It’s “the story of an extraordinary country that despite everything – and the list of burdens is endless – studies, works, manufactures and innovates”. A country that sometimes does not know how to exploit fully its efforts and cannot enjoy its records with pride: “Maybe – explains the Editor-in-chief - the raw material that we lack is confidence, confidence in ourselves, in our qualities, the ability to succeed, in the stubbornness of reinventing ourselves and carving a different role for Italy in the global world”.

The Special Edition of 28 pages will be delivered on 19 May, and within the following two days, directly into private mailboxes, and will also be available in a Digital Edition. On 19 May, the edition will be also distributed at newsstands to all readers of the newspaper. “This is a very important and demanding venture,” says Nicola Speroni, head of Sistema Corriere della Sera. “No newspaper has ever reached Italians door to door, and Corriere della Sera can do it thanks to its thought leadership and its unchallenged authority. The project contains a message which, I am sure, will be appreciated by all readers, as the many comments posted on our website thus far prove”.

Barbara Stefanelli, Deputy Director of Corriere della Sera, describes the project: “Distributing Corriere della Sera to Italian homes will be a critical step, but not the only one, in shaping a broad investigation that the newspaper wants to conduct with its male and female readers, a collective portrait of small and great experiences. On italiavoltapagina.corriere.it you can send ideas, stories, videos: battles to share. Starting with 20 May, moreover, the newspaper will be compiling the “Playlists of Italy”: 10 reasons, public and private, why it is nice to live in this country. Beppe Severgnini, as a side project, will offer 100 reasons for Italian pride among which everyone will have to chance to choose his/her 10 favourites: at the end you will find the reasons most clicked by browsers”.

BBC WS - BBC journalists to bring news analysis to viewers of 1+1 TV channel in Ukraine - May 12, 2014
from Lala Najafova/BBC WS

The BBC’s independent commentary and analysis of current affairs is now available directly to viewers in Ukraine thanks to a partnership between BBC World Service and Ukraine’s most popular TV channel, 1+1.

From the heart of the BBC’s news operation at New Broadcasting House in London, BBC Ukrainian (BBC Україна) journalists will appear live on the channel’s prime-time evening news programme, TSN, at 19.30 on Mondays and Wednesdays, providing 1+1 viewers with international perspective of current regional events as well as analysis of UK and global developments.

BBC Ukrainian has a number of partnerships with major news websites in Ukraine. This is the first collaboration with a TV channel. BBC World Service Europe Hub Editor, Artyom Liss, comments: “The popularity of BBC Ukrainian had been growing steadily, with audiences coming to the bbc.ua website for unbiased, balanced and reliable news, interviews and analysis. It’s great that, through collaboration with a TV channel such as 1+1, our journalists will be engaging with new audiences across Ukraine.”

Frederick Durman, Head of Business Development for Europe, BBC World Service, adds: ““We are really excited that our partnership with 1+1 will bring BBC Ukrainian to a wide audience at this critical time in Ukraine’s history.”

“TSN is the leading news programme in Ukraine, our anchors and journalists receive the most prestigious professional awards every year. Still, such collaboration for us is a great honor as BBC is the trendsetter in international news world and a golden standard for journalists. We aim to amaze our viewers, and I’m sure that the BBC input will add to our programme’s attractiveness,” – adds Sergiy Popov, Head of the Information Department of 1+1 Media.

The BBC Ukrainian website bbc.ua brings news stories, reports and features, picture galleries as well as audio and video content delivered by its journalists in Ukraine, Russia and the UK, as well as the BBC’s unparalleled global newsgathering operation. The Special Projects index on bbc.ua features BBC Ukraine’s editorial initiatives and special reports, while the dedicated index, Ukraine, offers news and information focusing on the country. Major, quickly developing events are covered on Live pages – an innovative tool of online journalism, which reflects news updates in real time. The BBC College of Journalism section shares the BBC’s guidelines on the use of unbiased language and style when reporting for TV, radio and online.

BBC Ukrainian is part of BBC World Service.

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