From the news of the Crimean War, to the reports from the streets of the Arab Spring, what are the new challenges that information must deal with in crisis areas? New communication tools like Twitter and YouTube, new actors like Al Jazeera. But also old practices, such as censorship and war propaganda, which take increasingly sophisticated forms. Lucia Goracci, Rai journalist, and Massimo Bernardini talk about it.
Lucia Goracci, a Rai journalist since 1995, began her experience with Tgr Sicilia where she hosted television news and radio newspapers and worked as a news editor. In 1999 she moved to Rai News 24 as a presenter, in September 2003 she was on Tg3 first in news, then as a foreign correspondent. For Tg3 he travels to Africa (Angola, Central African Republic, Zambia, Rwanda, Niger, South Africa), France (the slum crisis, the 2007 presidential elections) and the rest of Europe and, again, to Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Iran, the United States, India, Spain, Georgia (war with Russia, summer 2008). In 2009-2010 she was sent for the war in Gaza, the presidential elections in Iran, in South Africa for the World Cup, for the earthquake in Haiti, for elections in Iraq, in Israel, for Chilean miners and the Roma crisis (Romania). In 2011 in Haiti after the earthquake, in Iran, Albania, and for the war in Libya. Since the spring of 2007 he has hosted the night Tg3, which later became a flash news program within Linea Notte.
