"Creating and guaranteeing the conditions for an independent press is a task that calls on the institutions, civil society in its various forms, the media industry, the professional conscience of each journalist. An economically sound society proposes a publishing industry capable of affirming with forces its own function, not oriented towards partisan interests, but aimed at realizing the provision of the Constitutional Charter which reaffirms the right of citizens to free information".
So the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, in a message sent to the 29th FNSI Congress.
"The state of transformation that the media industry is experiencing in the context of digitization cannot translate into an impoverishment of the cultural and information heritage made available. It finds foundation,
in this regard, the intervention aimed at favoring, even with public resources, information pluralism, supporting the processes of innovation, with the confirmation of the decisive role of journalistic professionalism and responsibility in defining the news.
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