Rai Corporation closed and its assets will be auctioned next week. The laid-off workers, left without health insurance and compensation, are protesting in front of the Italian Consulate on Park Ave. In the meantime, Rai transferred the news correspondents to AP through expensive subcontracts.
You chose: Facts & Stories
-
-
Sebastian Rotella, Senior reporter at ProPublica, is the recipient of the 2012 Urbino Press Award, the Italian journalistic prize awarded each year to an American reporter who distinguished himself for his "ability to describe a world in change."
-
On April 14, Nazir Rafiq Ahmad was returning home via the subway when, between Rome's Terminal Station and Piazza Cavour, he was assaulted by a young man screaming racist insults, the kindest of which was “Go home, foreigner.”
-
Woody Allen presented his last work, a gift of love to the Eternal City and to Italy. The movie is a combination of adventures and misadventures of everyday people, such as Benigni’s character, Leopoldo Pasaniello, a common employee that suddenly and with no apparent reason becomes a celebrity and is stalked by paparazzi
-
Umberto Bossi, founding father of the Northern League, resigned as head of his party last week. After 30 years of blaming Rome of robbing, it turns out that some in Bossi's entourage were themselves stealing from the till, and on the grand scale. Bossi's son Renzo, who purchased a university degree with public funds, was no exception.
-
Scudieri recently visited North America to seal two very important deals for Adler Group: the opening of a virtual reality design laboratory in Philadelphia, and a design and experimentation center in Montreal, Canada. i-Italy discussed these two projects with him, and the importance of innovation for business in the globalized world.
-
The quest of a young Italian, Pietro Mereu, who travels around Italy in search of a job. This is the documentary everybody should see to understand the current economic situation in Italy
-
Diplomatici Association takes hundreds of Italian students at the United Nations Headquarters for "Change the World," an international simulation of the UN activities.
-
Anthony, Frankie, Giovanni, Peter and Chip are grown-up Italian-American men who still live at home. They are in their 30's yet they let their mothers do everything for them. They work, they party and they go out on the prowl, looking for the Italian woman of their dreams.
-
With the launch of @CBisogniero, the Embassy’s presence on the web has expanded beyond its official web site to YouTube, Flickr, and the Italy4Kids portal for the youngest generation