2024 Edition
The Jury chaired by Bruno Gambacorta proclaimed the 2024 winners
The winners
Giovanni Picuti - Tourism, Environment and Culture Section
Ulrike Sauer - Umbria del Gusto Section
Dario Tomassini, Elisa Marioni and Andrea Rossini - Video Section
Alessandro Mariani - Jury Award
Enrico D'Amo - School of Journalism Award
Special mentions
Arianna Marelli and Lucia Tironi - Video Section
Stefano Miliani - Umbria del Gusto Section
Giovanni Picuti
A lawyer from Foligno, he has worked as a commentator on economic and social facts and cultivates interests in territorial marketing, tourism and anthropology. He has collaborated on various editorial projects and for his journalistic work he received the first prize "Viaggiautore - Travel literature and journalism prize" in 2011. He collaborates with “Le Guide di Repubblica”.
Ulrike Sauer
Born and raised in Germany, she moved to Rome after graduating in Journalism. There she began reporting on Italy in the German media. Today she is a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the main German newspapers, about the Italian economy. Despite living in Italy for over 30 years, she has never ceased to be amazed by the extraordinary resources of our Country, its contradictions, its entrepreneurs.
Dario Tomassini
Rai journalist, he worked at La7 and Tg5 and since 2021 he has worked at Tgr Umbria. Specialized at the School of Radio and Television Journalism in Perugia, he worked for years in the field of political communication, taking care of the social profiles of politicians and public and private bodies, dealing with politics, economics and news. He is fond of stories and he created a podcast on the Monster of Foligno for Radio Rai.
Elisa Marioni
Professional journalist since 2017 and publicist since 2014, she specialized in television and radio journalism at the School of Radio and Television Journalism in Perugia. She is currently RAI editor of Tgr Umbria. Graduated in International Relations, she is passionate about stories, social issues and politics.
Andrea Rossini
Born in Perugia, married with two children, he works as editor of RAI Tgr Umbria. A professional journalist for thirty years, he carried out most of his work as an investigative crime and judicial reporter in Rimini, in a Romagna newspaper, and as a correspondent for La Stampa. Graduated in Literature, alongside his long experience in the media world he also distinguished himself as an author with the investigative book “Delitto Pantani. Ultimo chilometro (Pantani crime. Last kilometre)”. He also published a novel inspired by a true story: "Vita dopo l’amore (Life after love)".
Alessandro Mariani
Umbrian by birth and Milanese by adoption, professional journalist, he currently collaborates with Qui Finanza with articles and insights on the topics of economics and environmental sustainability. He boasts a Degree in Historical Sciences and a Master in Journalism from the Catholic University of Milan. He has experience in the sector of radio and television journalism, including a collaboration with SkyTg24 as a live correspondent and as a desk journalist. He also distinguished himself at the Ischia Award, as second place for the "Impact Environmental Journalism Award".
Enrico D'Amo
Born in Piacenza, graduated in Literature at the University of Turin, with the thesis «Three Italian writers and cinema. Soldati, Debenedetti, Morante» wins the Sandro Toni Award, promoted by the Cineteca di Bologna Foundation. He is currently specializing in television and radio journalism at the School of Radio and Television Journalism in Perugia.
Arianna Marelli
After her doctorate in Modern Philological and Linguistic Disciplines at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, with several publications under her belt, she became an author at the cultural documentary production house 3D Produzioni in Milan, with activities in the conception and screenplay of documentaries, interviews with personalities of the cultural world, in the literary, artistic and design fields. She has written numerous screenplays, including the most recent for the documentary “Otro Renacimiento. Da Napoli a Madrid, dal Prado a Capodimonte” directed by Valeria Parisi, based on a story by Didi Gnocchi, broadcasted on Rai5.
Lucia Tironi
Professional journalist since 2001, a degree in Literature and Philosophy from the University of Trieste where she was born. Grown up in Milan, she worked for some of the main Italian newspapers: from Radio Capital to Repubblica, for a total of 17 years in the Gedi Group. She currently works as an author at 3D Produzioni in Milan, a production house for documentaries and art and culture films for television publications such as Rai, Sky Arte, La7, Mediaset. In addition to art and culture, in her career she has also dealt with news and social issues, also curating a blog-observatory on Repubblica.it.
Stefano Miliani
Born in Florence, graduated in English language and literature at the University of Florence, has been a professional journalist since 1992, and he has always worked mainly on cultural and entertainment topics. He spent most of his professional career in the newspaper l'Unità and was also editor in Rome of the art website Kataweb Art - la Repubblica-l'Espresso group. He currently collaborates with Il Giornale dell'Arte, with the Tiscali Cultura site of the Tiscali Notizie portal and with the globalist.it portal.