Graziella De Palo , Italo Toni , Almerigo Grilz , Guido Puletti , Marco Luchetta with Alessandro Ota and Dario D'Angelo , Ilaria Alpi with Milan Hrovatin , Marcello Palmisano , Gabriel Gruener , Antonio Russo, Maria Grazia Cutuli, Raffaele Ciriello, Enzo Baldoni, Fabio Polenghi, Vittorio Arrigoni, Andrea Rocchelli and Simone Camilli. From 1980 in Beirut to 2014 in Gaza, 19 journalists and TV operators were killed abroad because they did their job in the front line. Their names are added to those of their nine colleagues killed by the mafias between 1960 and 1993: Cosimo Cristina, Mauro De Mauro, Giovanni Spampinato, Giuseppe Impastato, Mario Francese, Giuseppe Fava, Giancarlo Siani, Mauro Rostagno, Giuseppe Alfano. And to the two victims of terrorism of the lead years, Carlo Casalegno and Walter Tobagi. Thirty names for thirty different personal stories, but united by the same passion for journalism as a civil commitment. Their stories are now collected for the first time together on the site They were looking for the truth created by Ossigeno per l'Informazione and online since May 3, World Press Freedom Day.
May is a black month for Italian journalists. A month in which seven of them died. And just in the week in which we publish this magazine, three anniversaries fall: Grilz and Polenghi were both killed on May 19, respectively in 1987 and 2010, and Rocchelli on May 24, 2014. To the two photojournalists Polenghi and Rocchelli, the first killed in Bangkok and the second in Ukraine, some of the next pages will be dedicated. In which you will also find the testimonies of Alberto Spampinato, president of Ossigeno and Giovanni's brother, and books to learn more.
(thanks to the collaboration the journalist Luciana Borsatti)
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