The Telegraph, a historic British newspaper, is at the center of an acquisition battle after negotiations failed three months ago with Redbird Imi. A consortium led by the former British Finance Minister Nadhim Zahawi comes forward and could…
Artificial intelligence is also used to create and spread fake news and disinformation. Information sites generated only with AI are growing (almost a thousand) and without human supervision. A damage for everyone but also for the good journalism that seeks...
The online platform to request the one-off contribution to support the activity is active. You have until March 8th to submit your application. The aid is intended to support newsstands, which are increasingly less present on the local market and at risk…
It was 1883 when Leo Samuele Olschki decided to found his first antiquarian bookshop. Then transfers to Venice, Florence and finally the war and exile in Geneva. A 130 year long history where remembering is necessary
Rome has just over a thousand newsstands, less than half compared to Turin, while Milan loses 129. Bolzano and Sondrio record an increase in resales. The analysis of Unioncamere-InfoCamere
According to 83 Spanish newspapers, Meta would have "massively" and "systematically" violated EU rules on the protection of personal data, taking advantage of it to attract advertising
Precisely because the copies of paper newspapers are decreasing but advertising no longer binds publishers and journalists, Enrico Cuccia's famous quip about shares is back in fashion but in this case referring to copies: are they counted or weighed?...
In 2022 the publishing turnover stood at 3.388 million, fourth in Europe in terms of value on the national market. The Old Continent is the first export outlet area (62%): the translation rights purchased were…
There are hundreds of millions at stake for news companies. Google and Meta are moving. But also the publishing houses
The arrival of Generative Artificial Intelligence marked the death of the typo: the printing error disappears forever. From the Bible to Joyce here is the story of the most sensational errors
The Online News Act passed by the Canadian Senate forces web giants to pay media outlets for news shared or reused on their platforms. Law in effect in six months. Meta doesn't fit and immediately blocks the news...
Today the book industry in its traditional forms, i.e. pre-digital, has returned to growth, among the first in Europe, fourth after Germany, England and France, holds a significant share in the world, but there is a chronic shortage of readers
The media tycoon withdraws his proposal to merge the two companies, which split in 2013. The idea was strongly opposed by shareholders
The regulation establishes the criteria to be used to determine what is the fairest compensation that the big names in the network will have to pay to newspapers and journalists for their information content
Who is Alessandro Rossi, the new director of L'Espresso. How will the weekly change now? Independence, investigations, economy and new innovative guides. Here's the news
The success of a book about the love between two young men is putting the Kremlin in serious difficulty. His reaction is furious: a very repressive anti-LGBT law
The lawsuit was filed by the US Justice Department. The 2,2 billion merger would have created the largest publishing group in the world
The new editorial initiative, edited by Marco Mele and Patrizio Rossano, will have weekly periodicity, without excluding "flash" publications when news of particular interest will make it necessary
The true story of the most revolutionary designer of the twentieth century, Coco Chanel, and the intrigue linked to the most famous, best-selling, most iconic perfume ever, her No 5, are the ingredients of Pamela's bestseller LA REGINA No 5…
The new book by Sarzi Amadè tells the story of the Gonzagas behind the scenes. Published in midsummer by the Laterza publishing house. Interview with the author
A man of great culture, protagonist of battles of civil commitment, writer. A life dedicated to journalism and the passion to inform
After a deep crisis, the largest chain of bookstores in the world, demonized by small independent bookstores, has reared its head again. The secret weapon? This article from the New York Times explains it
The lettre de cachet, a blank arrest warrant signed by the king and granted to influential people, contributed much to the cheerful life within the prison walls.
The New York Times pays $550 million to buy the independent sports publication with 400 employees and 1,2 million subscribers. Now the battleship of world publishing is aiming straight for 10 million subscribers
According to a study by the Censis-Ital Communications Permanent Observatory, the risk is that of being exposed to fake news that influences decisions and behaviors - Almost half of the interviewees do not appreciate virologists on TV
It happens in Australia, where Andrew Forrest's philanthropic organization will help 18 small newspapers to obtain the same agreements that the big media already benefit from
Major German Publisher Axel Springer Gains Strength in Online Publishing by Buying Successful US Site Politico.com - The Deal is Worth Approximately One Billion Dollars
The summer does not stop the risk of international publishing: the German group Axel Springer plans to buy the successful site Politico while the American magazine Forbes could soon land on Wall Street through a SPAC - Ratings are stratospheric
After the resignation of the banker Miccicchè, the reluctance of the publisher Cairo to make prudential provisions for the Blackstone case pushes Della Valle, Tronchetti Provera and Cimbri to desert the RCS board of directors - In the first half of 2021 the publishing house is...
The Mountain View giant would not have complied with the Authority's indications on the method of negotiating contracts with publishers. Also in Italy a fine of 100 million in May
With the pandemic, more books have been sold and 70% of 18-34 year olds have listened to podcasts. For the future, however, 91% want to return at least in part to live use. The report…
FIRSTonline turns 10: from 23 May 2011 it talks about the economy and finance in a free and unconventional way, demonstrating that fake news and lazy populist conformism can also be erased on the web with information with an identity…
Ebooks should have developed and here are audiobooks instead. We made our way to India and arrived in America
The Arbitral Tribunal blames Cairo in the dispute over the sale price to Blackstone of the historic headquarters of Corriere della Sera in Milan: the price is right (120 million) and it will not have to be compensated - But now it could open…
New York Times Earnings Continue to Grow Despite Global Economic Crisis, but Subscriptions Grow Slower Than Expected - Newspaper Talks 'Trump Effect'
“Lisbon is destroyed and in Paris people dance”. this is Voltaire's bitter commentary written on November 2, 1755. It was the day after the terrifying Lisbon earthquake in which almost half of the population had lost their lives.
Digital subscriptions seem to be the last chance for a traditional publishing industry in crisis that is trying to stay afloat by drawing inspiration from foreign models - But the price issue is crucial - Many are referring to Netflix, but it will be the way…
VIDEO _ On the occasion of Dan Tuesday, Daniele Olschki talks about the history that links the publishing house to Dante's editions; a long history that begins at the end of the 1800s and continues up to today.
Chiara Saccavini, the gardener philosopher from Friuli, comes out for the types of Youcanprint with her ninth book, the third in the form of a novel. If death were a fragrant flower, is the title of a book that is easy to read…
The new series of classics by Intrecci Edizioni is born - The first release is the brilliant and bitter story "Arianna" by the Russian writer and playwright Anton Chekhov
A bill on payment of news to publishers proposed by the Australian Government has enraged Facebook which has blocked the sharing of links and news stories across Australia. Here's everything you need to know
Mercantile justice is now among the interests of economic historiography on late medieval Europe. If there were ordinary civil, corporate and commercial courts, of arbitration or other informal settlement proceedings, the possibility of recourse to justice to protect rights…
The volume continues the critical edition of the notebooks relating to Reynolds' stay in Italy started with Sir Joshua Reynolds in Italy (1750-1752) – Passage in Tuscany (Florence, Olschki, 2012), where one of the two notebooks kept in the British Museum is published in full . With the…
From offerings to the gods per fumum, aromatic substances became part of the daily life of ancient peoples. Incense, myrrh, spikenard, rose, saffron, marjoram, cardamom, cinnamon, cassia were the ingredients of precious fragrances such as Aigyption, Megallion, the Panathenaicum created by the art of…
Memoirs of Nikolai Punin in Italian. A very classic. Thanks to the Prokhorov Foundation and to Memorial, whose activity can never be praised enough, a very classic of art memoirs has been released in Italian. It's about Art in Revolt. Petrograd 1917 by Nikolaj Punin, translated and edited by Nadia Cigognini,…
This is the value of the decree signed by the Minister for cultural heritage and activities and for tourism, Dario Franceschini, which allocates a share, equal to 12 million euros, of the resources of the emergency fund for companies and institutions…
The secret rose is a hidden flower that arises from the hybridization of two different varieties: the alchemical rose and the rose which, alongside the more famous clover, represented the symbol of the Irish nation for a long time, since it was used…
This book tells the longest story ever dedicated to a tree. Peter R. Crane, one of the world's leading plant paleontologists, wrote it. The deep scientific knowledge, the passionate attention to the evolutionary events testified by the fossil record and the singular…
Verizon Media, a subsidiary of Verizon Communication has sold the Huffington Post site to BuzzFeed, the most viral news site on the web. The price of the transaction has not been disclosed, but the agreement would include an exchange of shares between the two companies,…
Historic turning point in France, after the Antitrust (implementing an EU directive) forced Big G to pay publishers a fee for publishing news. To date, Le Monde, Courrier international, L'Obs, Le Figaro, Libération and…
Never as in this period are interesting insights and reading books on the subject of language. An increasingly modified language both by a society that has not only changed the relationships between different cultures but also within the…
According to the investigation launched by the Authority, Google allegedly abused its dominant position, using the enormous amount of data collected through its Apps in a discriminatory manner, hindering competition in the online advertising sales markets
FIRSTonline joins the reference pole of online advertising of native digital information sites managed by Italiaonline
The Court of Paris endorses the Antitrust's decision on copyright and creates a very important precedent for other European countries as well.
The search engine thus tries to make peace with the publishers and will pay a series of newspapers "to create high-quality content" - But the criticisms are already arriving - The project has started in Germany and Brazil…
The Pavart contemporary art gallery presents the photographic book APNESYA, by the photographer Prisca Tozzi, curated by Velia Littera and created with the patronage of the Municipalities of Lipari, Santa Marina Salina, Malfa and Leni, the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund and Marevivo. The…
Report of the trip to China published in Quaderni Piacentini Almost simultaneously with Antonioni (who shot the ill-fated documentary Cheng Kuo, China in 1972), another brilliant, sophisticated and independent Italian intellectual outside the pack of the various ideological orchestras of the time visited China. …
The volume “In the shadow of the volcano. Futurism in Sicily and Marinetti's Etna" published by Olschki Editore, 2020, proposes, on the one hand, a study of the two most important Sicilian futurist magazines "La Balza futurista" and "Haschisch". If the “Futurist Balza”,…
The Academy of Safety and Best Health in collaboration with the goWare publishing house and the School of Publishing announce two national competitions for short stories. The stories must have a maximum of 1800 lines and deal with personally experienced stories, of which the author can be the witness or narrator…
In today's media, contents are less and less produced by a creative elite and more and more by spontaneous generation: they are the new authors, the media prosumers, both consumers and producers - In a forthcoming book…
If we want to talk about prolific authors, we cannot fail to mention a writer and journalist, certainly more a journalist than a writer, with such a fertile vein that he left behind a hundred books and a few thousand articles. A name today…
by Raffaele Alberto Ventura From the magazine “Sentieri Selvaggi” — n. 5 (December 2019-February 2020), whom we thank for their availability — we reproduce this interesting contribution by Raffaele Alberto Ventura, author of the book Everyone's war. Populism, terror and the crisis of society…
Novecento opere The protagonist of the 29th episode of the series of best-selling Italian authors is a narrator of extremely high narrative prolificacy. It is the Neapolitan writer Francesco Mastriani, very close, even narratively, to his city and to Southern Italy. From many…
The contribution that Vivaldi made to the development of bass string instruments is formidable: he enriched the cello repertoire like no other composer of his time, offered the double bass unprecedented roles and new timbral functions, brought the viola from oblivion from…
ItalyPost, publisher of books and events, opens the first of what could become a chain of bookshops in Padua. Thanks to a collaboration with Lago, an avant-garde design company for its globally appreciated furnishing solutions, in the ItalyPost…
Recently published the volume “The Great Hall of Palazzo Vecchio and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo Da Vinci. From the architectural configuration to the decorative apparatus edited by Roberta Barsanti, Gianluca Belli, Emanuela Ferretti and Cecilia Frosinini, published by Olschki Editore. Tell the…
After the handover of the Gedi group, the Engineer embarks on a new adventure: a new journal positioned on the left will be released in the autumn - It will be both on paper and on the web, director Stefano Feltri.
Vamba: children's literature is born with a bad and mischievous model "Gian Burrasca". Long live pappa con pomodoro by Michele Giocondi and Mario Mancini And here we are at the 28th episode of the series by the best-selling Italian authors. Take the field…
The Bari Public Prosecutor's Office has given a mandate to the Finance to seize and close 19 Telegram channels that would have disseminated free PDF copies of newspapers every day. The problem of piracy only aggravates the crisis going through the publishing of…
The agent of change is not technology. Interview by Daniel Morrow, Smithsonian Institute, April 20, 1995Translated from English by Francesco Vegni In 1995, the year before returning to Apple and the year of the SEC prospectus for the listing of NeXT,…
The traditional appointment in the heart of Southern Italy, an opportunity to recover after the epidemic. The relationship with the environment. Once again protagonists, young people. The coronavirus didn't stop them. In order to maintain the link with artists, poets, writers, journalists, they have organized the "Feast of Books and Comics" on the web: www.alessiabellofatto.altervista.org. In Avella in the Parco del Partenio…
The event will begin at 11.00 on 23 April and will offer critical commentary interventions by some authors on the great works of literature and the reading of some significant passages from the great classics by the actors who have joined the…
Patrizio Rossano Let's complete this sort of "trilogy" of gestures that the coronavirus would like to take away from us. A warm handshake has always sealed pacts and confirmed friendships, close relationships, expressed affection and feelings on a par with and together with hugs and...
Lack of respect for animals Jane Goodall is the ethologist and primatologist who boasts a well-deserved worldwide reputation for her tireless work as a scientist and animal rights activist. Her pioneering research in Tanzania showed the community…
The coronavirus is stealing so much of our humanity. In recent days we wrote on FirstOnLine about the hug as an iconic, symbolic, essential manifestation in human relationships. Two people approaching, intertwining arms and bodies represent the vastest palette…
Resurrection of a book The 27th episode of the series by Italian best-selling authors is dedicated to the story of a resurrection. That of a book. The history of books is sometimes tortuous, almost like that of our lives, and in…
It is difficult to underestimate the importance of the Montessori method in training the young innovators who have brought about the Internet revolution. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google both trained in a Montessori school. Even Jeff Bezosci passed. Everyone…
Easter celebrates the Resurrection, lightens our hearts, erases fear and tells us the story of revelation: Christ is alive. Think of the dismay of the Apostles in front of the events of the last days of Jesus' life, at his Calvary. One who…
It was April 8, 1972, An Lộc was hit by rockets and mortar shells, raising clouds of dust and rubble from the red earth streets. Thousands of refugees tried to reach Saigon, not realizing that the North Vietnamese had now closed…
The transfer of Gedi's control package - which controls newspapers such as la Repubblica, La Stampa, l'Espresso and many others - from the De Benedetti family's Cir to the Agnelli-Elkann family's Exor will take place within the month and will change…
“Christina's World” a 1948 work painted by Andrew Wyeth depicts a young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field. Although she appears in a resting position, her bust, resting on her…
The 26th episode of the series by the Italian best-selling authors presents a writer, today largely disappeared from the collective memory, except for some distant veteran of those times or those suffering from a disabling pathology, which we will discuss in…
It is in difficult moments that it becomes difficult to put on any mask, built over the years not always to defend oneself but often to appear what one wanted to believe. Invincible, sometimes proud and sometimes too greedy to achieve everything…
We all remember General Rommel, Erwin Johannes Eugen to be exact, as the man who in 1940 suddenly became the most famous commander of the XNUMXth Armored Division during its advance through France. After two years, when his Africa Kops stood with the forces…
How much curiosity is linked to the pyramids of Giza, in Egypt, and above all to the great pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu, called by the Greeks, Cheops. Built about 4.500 years ago, it still remains the largest work of architecture ever built by man, with…
Walter Lazzarin has had two lives: one as a precarious teacher of History and Philosophy and one as a Writer on the Street, since 2015 he has been selling his works as a wandering writer, whether books or tautograms, FIRST Arte interviewed him
During this period of health emergency from Covid-19 which sees us worried but also closer, we thought we'd publish a reading every day: moments of #history, of #society or commented pages of the great #classics of literature. An easy way…
The cartoonist of Italian origin, very talented despite his color blindness, who together with Goscinny in 1959 gave birth to the successful series, translated into over 100 countries, has passed away.
As people around the world attempt to come to terms with the new reality that has suddenly presented itself as a nightmare we stand at the window like so many great artists of the past who have communicated their feelings for the…
Extract from the book “Barbie, the Plastic Venus by Valeria Arnaldi. Published with the kind permission of “Sentieri Selvaggi Magazine”, which we thank for their availability. Created in 1959 by Ruth Handler, the most famous doll in the world has turned 61. Hers…
The tragedy of the Coronavirs that hits Italy so closely brings a treatise by Cesare Mocca back into the news that describes the plague that decimated Turin between 1629 and 1630
In these days that an unknown and invisible enemy has forced us into isolation from our fellow humans, just look out the window and see that nature hasn't stopped, quite the contrary! Spring has reappeared as in every season, the…
At a time when time escapes us and makes us fragile, our thoughts go to those who work in hospitals to save everyone's life, absolutely everyone. Preferential lanes for the most needy, today more than ever we are from…
Here's who introduced the food "virus" into Italy The 25th episode of the series by Italian best-selling authors is not dedicated to a storyteller. It is dedicated to Pellegrino Artusi who introduced a completely “virus” into our country…
A fundamental work has recently been republished for understanding modernity and the developments of contemporary art and aesthetics. It is a seminal book that has influenced entire generations of artists and thinkers. It is Richard Wagner's The Artwork of the Future in Italian translation republished by…
The Paris book fair "Livre Paris" scheduled from 20 to 23 March 2020 will not take place. The event is known to be advertised around a red thread anchored to the latest literary and editorial news to resonate voices…
Today Corriere della Sera celebrates its 144th birthday. Depending on the period, it is the first or second most popular Italian newspaper and is the point of reference for the Lombard bourgeoisie. Published by Rcs, the first shareholder is…
The 24th episode of the series of Italian best-selling authors deals with one of the main best-sellers of our country at the time of its birth, that is about 160 years ago. This is not so much a novel as a real…
Registration is open until 30 June 2020 for the contest organized by Fedrigoni SpA and reserved for designers, printers, publishers and end customers who have been able to enhance the Fedrigoni, Fabriano branded papers and…
The Italian Periodic Press Union has signed an agreement with the Italpress news agency for the supply of daily news and video content
