Roberto Morrione Award
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Roberto Morrione Award
The Roberto Morrione Award for Investigative Journalism was created in 2011 out of the desire by relatives, friends and colleagues to keep alive the memory and the professional example set by Roberto Morrione.
The Award, now in its sixth edition, finances the production of investigative projects run by young people in Italy under the age of 31 on issues of national and international news, politics, society, and culture. For example, mafias and other criminal organizations, illegal trafficking, corruption and intimidation, and violations of human rights. The Award represents an opportunity to produce projects that explore the difficult reality of the contemporary world, highlight its shady aspects and tell stories with modern tools and language, from videos to web docs. Most importantly, it is aimed at young professionals, especially since it is inspired by a true master, Roberto Morrione, who believed in and invested so much in young people.
It’s an initiative that rewards investigative journalism: every year the jury vets its applicants and selects four projects that are sponsored with the financial contribution of RAI News 24, which will broadcast them online. As to the web documentary, there will be the chance to be submitted to festivals and to meet industry professionals in Italy and abroad.
From 2012 to today, 523 young people have participated, with 377 investigative topics. Thanks to the Prize, sixteen reporters’ investigations were carried out.
The award is organized and promoted by the Associazione Amici di Roberto Morrione (The Association Friends of Morrione) and by RAI, with the support of the “eight per one thousand” (Otto Per Mille) from the church “Chiesa Valdese,” the FNSI and UsigRAI. Also, RAI News 24, RAI Radio 3, TGR, Internazionale e Riforma.it are media partners.
The chains of Mass Market Retailers
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The investigative video report “The chains of Mass Market Retailers”, is a journey into the world of fruit and vegetables production in Italy, to inquire the responsibility of “Caporalato”, the illegal recruitment of agricultural workers for very low wages.
From the North to the South of Italy, through the voices of businessmen, farmers and workers, the authors tried to reconstruct the intricate agri-food chain relationships, which start from the Mass Market Retailers– the supermarkets where we make shopping every day – and arrive to the fields. The employment of low-cost foreign workers -with zero rights and trade union protection- is the most obvious and scandalous effect of a production system, forced to modify its natural processes to meet the demands of modern retailers, who buy and sell food products, set the prices, and enforce production standards and rules to the single farms.
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La video inchiesta si presenta come un viaggio nel mondo dell’ortofrutta in Italia, per indagare le responsabilità del fenomeno del caporalato. Dal Nord al Sud del nostro paese, attraverso le voci di alcuni protagonisti, si cerca di ricostruire l’intricato sistema di rapporti della filiera agroalimentare, che parte dalla Grande Distribuzione Organizzata- i supermercati in cui andiamo a fare la spesa ogni giorno- e arriva fino ai campi.
L’uso di manodopera straniera a basso costo – con zero diritti e tutele sindacali – è infatti l’effetto più evidente e scandaloso di un sistema produttivo costretto a modificare i suoi processi per accontentare le richieste, in bilico tra il legale e l’illegale, della distribuzione moderna. La vendita di cibo a basso costo e le campagne di vendita promozionale nei supermercati nascondono sfruttamento e povertà.
Leonardo Filippi
Leonardo Filippi was born in Genoa on July 12, 1990 and he grew up in Pontremoli, a little city in Northern Tuscany. After graduating in Philosophical Studies in Parma, he continued the University in Rome, where at same time he frequented School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation and he met his friends and colleagues Maria Panariello and Maurizio Franco.
He did an internship with the editorial board of Left, an Italian weekly magazine, which has given him means “to blow” himself into the world of information and to publish on some newspapers. Passionate about the technology that supports performance and communication, he was a volunteer at the press office of the XX edition of the Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Prize. Currently he is a contributor to Il Fatto Quotidiano and Controlacrisi.org
Maurizio Franco
Maurizio Franco was born in Rome on February 5, 1990.
Persuaded by an indefinable love for writing, he studied Modern Literature at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Thereafter he decided to enroll in the School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation, where he met Maria Panariello and Leonardo Filippi. With these two enthusiastic journalists, he was keeping the project of investigative video report “Le catene della distribuzione” (“The chains of the Mass Market Retailers”), winner of the fifth edition of the Roberto Morrione Prize for investigative journalism .
After working as an intern at Skytg24 Economic editorial board, he was a reportage contributor to Il Manifesto, Fatto Quotidiano, Corriere della Sera and Vice Italy. With some of his university colleagues and friends, he founded Freemaninrealworld, a Literature blog which recently published on Pagina99, an Italian publication.
Maria Panariello
Maria Panariello was born in Naples on January 14, 1987.
Passionate about Literature, she undertook Philology Studies at University of Naples “Federico II”. The year of Erasmus project in Paris drove her to move permanently to the French capital, where she has spent four years. Here she taught Italian language at High Schools and she worked as a press and media relations officer at Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. Her awareness of social issues and human rights pushed her back to Italy to attend the School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation. After that she did an internship with News Press Agency Redattore Sociale and SkyNewsTg24. Currently she works for Vice Italy, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Il Corriere della Sera. She is also editor of the Journal.today, an Italian app.
