Journalism in Italy

The current episode of "Continent" deals with the media situation in Italy.

There, in Bolzano, we meet with Markus Perwanger , head of the Rai South Tyrol editorial team, and discuss the importance of multilingual broadcasting by public service programs—in this specific case, a German-language offering for the German-speaking population of South Tyrol. Then we hear from Ferdinand Dohna , a film producer who lives and works in Rome. He not only the Inspector Rex series from Vienna to Rome, but has also been a successful producer for Berlusconi and Rai for many years. When it comes to media, we all naturally associate Italy with television, with the programs shaped, not least, by Silvio Berlusconi and his private broadcasting group, Mediaset . But beyond that, there are also radio offerings, and both Italian publishing houses and the German broadcaster WDR broadcast podcasts and radio programs in Italian—WDR even produces its own program. This program is, so to speak, a best practice example for European programs, and we discuss this with Tommaso Pedicini .