Does political debate also happen online in Italy?
Generally speaking, there’s more of a debate about the head of government rather than about specific issues. There is discussion taking place online, but not on media websites. A German newspaper like Die Welt has a comment function enabled for each article, but you won’t find that on many Italian newspaper websites. What about your average working day? What’s your schedule most days? I look for topics to write about, scan the online editions of Italian and German papers. I know what Italian readers like to read. Then I pitch my stories to editors; I often end up writing a series of articles on one topic. Our deadlines tend to be a lot later at night than that of my German colleagues. In Berlin, you’ll find the next day’s paper on news stands at around 8pm. In Italy, journalists are still working around that time and the final deadline very often is at 1am or 2am. What has been one of your favourite topics? I did a lot of research about the child abuse cases in the Catholic church, whi
