ROMA – Grow up the Permanent Youth-Publishers Observatory by Andrea Ceccherini and consolidates its leadership in the field of media literacy in Italy and in Europe.
Also from the 2021-2022 school year The Republic, La Stampa, Il Secolo XIX, Corriere delle Alpi, Gazzetta di Mantova, Il Messaggero Veneto, La Provincia Pavese and La Tribuna di Treviso become part of the “Il Quotidiano in Classe” project, thus increasing the number of newspapers involved in the media literacy initiative of the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori.
Maurizio Scanavino, CEO of Gedi, explains: “Encouraging participation in public life, first of all involving schools and students, is one of the ESG objectives that Gedi has chosen to pursue with a series of high-profile initiatives” of a social and environmental nature .
“We are happy to join the Quotidiano in Classe, where we have chosen to contribute in particular with our digital products: a multimedia offer, usable on any device, which will bring quality content and information to young people in a fast and immediate language. “
Dice Maurizio Molinari, director of Repubblica and editorial director of the Gedi Group: “The entry of the Gedi Group into the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori assigns Repubblica and the other publications of the group a leading role in the development of digital publishing as a continuous source of training and information of the new generations “.
“It is a crucial step that brings together the tradition of Repubblica as an interpreter of the school world with the commitment to digital information, the most advanced technologies and the fight against fake news that sets us apart. Each Gedi Group newspaper sees in this agreement an extraordinary opportunity to develop and expand the conversation on information with the youngest ”.
“It is a great pleasure to be able to welcome on board La Repubblica, La Stampa, Il Secolo XIX and the other publications of the Gedi group which – under the presidency of John Elkann – wanted to join Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, in the Quotidiano Nazionale and other Italian newspapers, engaged for over twenty years in Il Quotidiano in Classe “, says Andrea Ceccherini, the president of the Permanent Youth-Publishers Observatory.
“I am confident that this initiative can represent a useful tool for Italian teachers ready to relaunch, in a modern and contemporary way, the Cinderella of the Italian school: the old lesson of civics“.
Through the critical reading of the various newspapers in comparison, “the eyes of young people on the world will open, nourishing their curiosity and thirst for knowledge”. In this way, therefore, the female students “will align themselves with the different points of view and the different representations of a same news they can be given, to make them grow that critical spirit and civic sense that make man freer “.
“On the other hand – continues Ceccherini – the young people of generation Z can experience the newspaper in the classroom as a useful opportunity for discussion to vent the desire for change that animates them, and which they have been able to express both in the defense of civil values, through the Black Live Matters movement, both in defense of the planet from the risk of ecological collapse, through the actions of Friday for Future“.
“What is growing in the classrooms of our schools is a passionate and fascinating generation that, duly trained to open up and not close, can make a difference, giving their contribution to make this world a better place”.
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