20–22

the most pressing issues of our time.

Trieste: a border city with a tormented history, a past stained with blood, and a future of endless possibilities; a city inspired by a calling to literature, a passion for reading, and a need for telling; a city that is and always has been a place of literature and journalism.

Countless poets, writers, and scholars, as well as numerous eminent journalists, took their first steps in this very city before becoming deservedly renown throughout the world: Claudio Magris, Mario Luzzato Fegiz, Fulvio Molinari, Demetrio Volcic, Enzo Bettiza, Sergio Canciani, Giovanna Botteri, Paolo Condò, just to name a few. Many continue to illuminate our present with their voices or their pens; others have passed, but keep shining in

This year’s edition of Link will start on Friday, April 20, and will last until Sunday, April 22: three days of discussions, interviews, press-lab meetings, and press reviews will give participants numerous opportunities to meet those journalists, whose faces they only see on TV, or whose voices they usually hear on the radio, and whose words they read on newspapers, journals and websites every day. Eyewitnesses of our time will be discussing and commenting on a wide range of issues: international crises, new leaders of the world, hotbeds of conflict, environmental issues, human health, the economy, with a special section entirely dedicated to sports and the arts. Link could be described as a huge newspaper for collective reading, or as an intense talkshow, with new guests taking their place on stage every hour. The stage itself is most spectacular in our memory thanks to their precious work.

Newsroom allestita nella più grande Piazza d’Europa affacciata sul mare. Tra le novità di questa quinta edizione un percorso per immagini lungo 60 anni estratto dal prezioso scrigno di Raiteche attraverso il quale ripercorrere gli eventi che hanno fatto la storia. Quasi una cinquantina i protagonisti di questa quinta edizione, tra i quali troveremo volti noti e amati della tv, del giornalismo e della cultura così come nelle scorse edizioni, tanti e prestigiosi personaggi hanno acceso l’interesse del pubblico, numerosissimo, che da sempre affolla la grande tensostruttura di Link: Corrado Augias, Alan Friedman, Antonio Di Bella, Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, Giovanni Floris, Lirio Abbate, Pierluigi Battista, Lilli Gruber, Tommaso Cerno, Adriano Sofri, Marcello Sorgi, Giovanna Botteri, Beppe Giulietti, Andrea Montanari, Stefano Tura, Tiziana Ferrario, Federico Buffa, Giulia Innocenzi e molti altri ancora.

Trieste refuses to forget, Trieste wants to remember the ones who paid the highest price while fulfilling their duty. And so, for fifteen years now, Trieste has been remembering four of its own: journalists Luchetta, Ota, and D’Angelo, who were killed in 1994 while on duty in East Mostar, and Hrovatin, killed in Mogadishu that very same year. The Foundation dedicated to their memory carries their names and celebrates their lives every year with an International Press Award, the Luchetta Award. The run-up to the Award is currently dedicated to its main spin-off event: “Link – Premio Luchetta incontra” [Link – The Luchetta Award meets], The Festival of good journalism. The Festival brings together leading experts, journalists and thinkers, to discuss current affairs and present their work within the framework of an ongoing debate on nature: the Fincantieri Newsroom, a live scene set in the greatest European square overlooking the sea. Moreover, this fifth edition will be crowned by an unprecedented event: an invaluable photographic exhibit displaying 60 years of world history, courtesy of Raiteche, the archive section of RAI (Italian national public broadcasting company).

Once again, Link will welcome renowned and beloved TV hosts, journalists, and thinkers. We offer our large and enthusiastic audience a panel of almost fifty distinguished guests, including, but not limited too: Corrado Augias, Alan Friedman, Antonio Di Bella, Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, Giovanni Floris, Lirio Abbate, Pierluigi Battista, Lilli Gruber, Tommaso Cerno, Adriano Sofri, Marcello Sorgi, Giovanna Botteri, Beppe Giulietti, Andrea Montanari, Stefano Tura, Tiziana Ferrario, Federico Buffa, and Giulia Innocenzi.