Which and how much Africa do we see through the Italian media? The answer is provided by the report “MEDIAted Africa” by Amref Health Africa-Italy. The survey – relating to TV, the press, social media and fiction, in the first half of 2019 – was conducted by the Osservatorio di Pavia and was presented in Rome on the eve of the World Development Information Day – established by the General Assembly of the United Nations (October 24).
The research focused on 30 episodes of television series, 65 information programs of 7 generalist networks, 80,000 news monitored on the newscasts of 9 television networks, 800 front-page news analysed on 6 national newspapers, 21.6 thousand Facebook posts and 54,000 tweets from 8 newspapers.
The presentation event took place on Wednesday 23 October, in Rome, in the spaces of Binario F in via Marsala 29H, moderated by Massimo Bernardini, journalist and host of TV Talk, and was attended by: Paola Barretta – Osservatorio di Pavia; Lucia Duraccio – Foreign news Editor-in-Chief Tg1; Esther Elisha – Actress; Sonny Olumati – activist; Maria Cuffaro – Tg3 Mondo; Laura Pertici – la Repubblica Central Editor-in-Chief; Eddie Settembrini – Editor of Lercio, Marco Tarquinio – Director Avvenire; Giacomo Ciarrapico – Author Boris.