I've read the guidebooks, watched the travel videos, taken language classes, read on the culture, history, and art, and seek out authentic recipes to cook. So what's left I thought is to learn about everyday life and current events. Any recommendations for the news?
Posted by
Chicago
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In English
https://www.euronews.com/tag/italy
Most of these are in Italian
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/italy.htm
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New Paltz, NY
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It's in Italian but you can stream the RAI news channel here:
https://tinyurl.com/y9bfmmxz
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
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TELEVISION
RAI is the Public Italian State owned network (multiple channels). I guess the Italian version of BBC.
https://www.rai.it
MEDIASET is the second largest private network. Several commercial channels (all owned by Berlusconi and his family). Right of center leaning.
https://www.mediasetplay.mediaset.it
La7 is third. More left leaning, owned by Cairo Communication Group.
http://www.la7.it
Then there is Sky Italia, Discovery Italia, et al.
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San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
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DAILY NEWSPAPERS
This is a good list. If you go to each article it will also list the website.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Italy
Il Corriere and La Repubblica are the largest, but lately they want money to read their articles past the first paragraph, so I kind of stopped reading them.
I generally read La Nazione, which is Florence’s daily (my city) and so far stil free. But I also read Il Fatto Quotidiano, sort of left wing antiestablishment (Bernie Sanders type) and il Giornale (owned by Berlusconi, therefore FoxNews style). Between the two I get a good laugh, but they are free and pretty liberal in their readers’ comment policy, especially on Berlusconi’s newspaper, where they will publish any rant you have against anybody (im not a fan of Berlusconi, but at least he believes in freedom of speech, including in the comments in his newspapers)
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Paris
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La Stampa out of Turin,
Posted by
Boston
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One good source is the English section of the Italian press association's website: http://www.ansa.it/english/ Their Italian sections are even more extensive and diverse.
Posted by
OP
Beaverton, Oregon
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These are wonderful suggestions and i'm enjoying perusing them this Sunday as an alternative to the grim news cycle at home.