Calabresi: 'Other Stories my new challenge'

"There will be no editorials, only people's stories and reviews: it's a different, more in-depth way of explaining the context of an event, it's an experiment, let's see if readers will appreciate it". "Altre Storie" is born , the new editorial project by Mario Calabresi , former director of La Stampa and La Repubblica. From today the first issue of the free newsletter starts, which already has 20 thousand subscribers: just sign up and it will arrive every Friday at 7.30 am through your personal email. The other element that gives life to the journalist's latest bet is the website www.mariocalabresi.com , where stories and reviews take on the color of Olimpia Zagnoli's designs.

Why a newsletter? "Because I like to experiment, I always did it even when I was in the newspapers," says Calabresi to ANSA. The journalist and writer (his latest book is The morning after, Mondadori editor's note) makes an argument: "Why do you find it again. Why do you read it whenever you want. Why can it be treated in detail. Why is it a fixed appointment. Because it is ancient and I decided to make a newsletter because it looks like me and serves to tell the stories that are closest to my heart, as I do with my books ". Calabresi adds: "The stories came to me from the people who looked for me, who wanted to share something with me".

Will it have concrete feedback? "I don't know, let's see how it evolves, I have many people who also write to me on social media. However, the project will expand: I will launch a series in podcasts at the end of March and integrate it with the newsletter", he replies. There is a question that is asked in Altre stories, which also refers to both Twitter and Instagram on the social profile, posed before the platform officially started: "Do you prefer past or future?". "The result - he explains - is 50 and 50, with a slight prevalence of the past, I went to check today. This is very significant, of the fear of what comes next. I myself have talked a lot about the past in my books, but to look to the future and understand the present "

In Other Stories this week Calabresi tells the story of Federica oncologist, of Assunta seeking justice, of Silvana keeping the spotlight on: the three women interviewed in Casale Monferrato, where the Eternit factory was located and where people still die today, and more, asbestos.