70th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Periodical Press Union

70th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Periodical Press Union

“The 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Italian Periodical Press Union represents an important milestone for an association which includes over a thousand newspapers published by medium and small businesses and non-profit organizations and entities, an expression of a dimension that can be seen in the local media and specialists a vital resource and an indispensable safeguard of the information system".
The President of the Republic says so Sergio Mattarella in a message to the USPI General Secretary, Francesco Saverio Vetere.
“The pluralism that fuels the democratic life and freedoms of Italians, guaranteed by the Constitutional Charter - argues - it is enriched by the presence of a significant number of independent voices offering citizens the opportunity to satisfy the fundamental right to be informed. And it is certainly the Republic's duty to support editorial initiatives that are characterized in this sense, starting from the guarantee of equal business conditions and access to the market". “A great responsibility is entrusted to the journalists - adds the Head of State -, witnesses and certifiers of the correspondence between the facts and their representation, to the editors and to the subjects called upon to give maximum commitment in the deployment of the principles enshrined in our founding Pact. , even more so in a season of significant transformations that radically change the panorama of sources and call into question their reliability, a question also appropriately addressed within the European Union".

USPI general secretary Francesco Saverio Vetere in an interview with Laura Giordano of PaeseItaliaPress.it outlined, among other things, the balance of USPI's 70 years of activity.

“In 70 years USPI has done many things. He defended the weakest sector, preventing the big publishers from taking all the resources, especially public ones. It has favored the regulation of new online publishing in terms of definition of editorial product and contractual protection. It has generated trade union pluralism, entering into contracts with unions that previously did not represent journalists.
But I could talk about USPI's relations with Eastern Europe during the Cold War, about the birth of periodical publishing as an indicator of progressively acquired freedom in the East, about publishing schools, university teaching, studies on freedom of printing. But I don't like turning to the past. I want to think about the future in the sense of contributing to the next step, that is, to define the relationship between the production of information and Artificial Intelligence (AI). What will become of journalism as we know it? I have a vision that human journalism will create and represent a niche in a sea of ​​AI-generated information. And it will be essential, but with numbers incomparably lower than the current ones.
The problems that this transformation will pose are so enormous that they cannot be fully reported now. Let's start with the basics. Beauty and Good are the foundation of the world as we want to know it and as we desire it."