Come i media mainstream europei dovrebbero coprire i partiti politici di estrema destra?
Sat 20 April 2024
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How should Europe’s mainstream media cover far-right political parties? Should they denounce, ignore, contextualize, include, or mainstream far-right rhetoric and policies?
Far-right populist parties are advancing in Europe. In Italy and in Finland, Fratelli di Italia and Finns Party respectively, govern in coalition; in Germany and in Austria the support for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is spreading; in France, Marie Le Pen, National Assembly, hopes to become president. In June 2024, the far-right parties are expected to increase their presence and reshape the European Parliament. Their policies and rhetoric, deemed inappropriate a decade ago, have become mainstream. Although country-specific, all far-right parties share one common view: anti-immigration policies and rhetoric.
How should the liberal mainstream media cover the far right, their policies and rhetoric? Should every word and gesture be chronicled, or ignored or fact-checked? How much public space/attention should the far-right be given? Do mainstream media ignore and/or understand the growing number of voters who support the far right? Why did media fail to predict the far-right victory in The Netherlands? Are there any good practices in covering the far-right?
Moderated by Mirjana Tomic.
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Palazzo Murena (Perugia)
Il Palazzo Murena è un edificio storico di Perugia, in Umbria. Sito in piazza dell'Università, è sede dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia.
Ann-Katrin Muller
Ann-Katrin Müller is political editor for the German weekly DER SPIEGEL Her main topics are the far-right party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), and disinformation. She studied Political Science and European Studies in Bonn and London at King’s College. She was a trainee at the ARD (German public broadcaster) political talk show Hart aber Fair and has been political editor at DER SPIEGEL since August 2013. Müller is a frequent guest in TV debates.
Gilles Paris
Gilles Paris is a French journalist and novelist. He joined Le Monde in 1989 and worked first for the political department, covering the Parliament and the non-Gaullist right. Later, he joined the Middle East desk. Based in Paris, he covered the whole region, from Iraq to Yemen and Egypt, before being appointed correspondent in Jerusalem in 2001 at the beginning of the second intifada. Gilles remained in this position until 2006, before returning to Paris to serve successively as deputy head and head of the international department until 2013. After a stint in the Economy department, in charge of the energy sector, he was appointed correspondent in Washington DC in 2014 and covered mainly American politics and diplomacy until 2021. Back in Paris, Gilles joined the Editorial Board while contributing to the launch of Le Monde's English website. During the latest French presidential campaign, he wrote a daily column in English on French politics that has become a weekly one.
Laura Saarikoski
Laura Saarikoski is the editor-in-chief of Premium content at The Helsingin Sanomat, the largest newspaper in Finland. Previously, she was the Managing News Editor during Covid and Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Earlier, Saarikoski worked as the US correspondent for Helsingin Sanomat 2014-2018, covering Donald Trump’s rise to the White House. She received The Journalist of the Year Award in Finland for her US reporting in 2017. Saarikoski holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Tampere, Finland. She has also studied at Oxford University, UK and George Washington University in Washington, DC. At Oxford, she spent a year studying how to lead creative people through digital change.
Mirjana Tomic
Mirjana Tomić hosts and moderates high-end seminars, panels and interviews on politics and media in Europe for two Vienna-based organisations: Forum Journalismus und Medien (fjum) and Presseclub Concordia. Customised for media and academic researchers, her events address themes related to political developments in Europe, and always focus on understanding the local contexts. Seminar speakers and interviewees count among the most prestigious in their fields: Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, geopolitical expert Olivia Lazard, Meduza co-founder Galina Timchenko, ICIJ director Gerald Ryle, top Bellingcat investigator Christo Grozev, to name a few. The most prominent European political scientist, Ivan Krastev, is her regular guest in Presseclub Concordia: each year, since 2018, Krastev and Tomic speak about the expectations for the coming year. As a political analyst, Tomić contributes to Judy Dempsey`s Strategic Europe blog (Carnegie Europe). Formerly, Tomic worked as a political ...