Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana

The Federazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana (Italian National Press Federation, FNSI) is the unitary trade union of the Italian journalists, which signs on their name the national collective agreement. Since 15 December 2015 it is chaired by Giuseppe Giulietti, replacing Santo Della Volpe after his death.[1] The union secretary is Raffaele Lorusso.[2]

FNSI
Full nameItalian National Press Federation
Native nameFederazione Nazionale Stampa Italiana
Founded1908
AffiliationInternational Federation of Journalists
Key peopleGiuseppe Giulietti, President
Raffaele Lorusso, General Secretary
Office locationRome
CountryItaly
WebsiteFNSI.it

History

The first journalists' union in Italy was the Associazione della Stampa Periodica Italiana, founded in Rome on 16 December 1877 and first chaired by Francesco De Sanctis. It included both journalists and publishers.

The Press Federation was founded in 1908[3] by few regional associations of journalists, to unite the professional category and make it independent from political and economic powers. It was dissolved and replaced forcibly in 1925 by the Fascist Union of Journalists (Sindacato fascista dei giornalisti), created the year before. The FNSI was restored at the fall of fascism, with its first reunion on 27 July 1943. It restarted its activities at the end of the nazi occupation of Rome, on 7 June 1944.

In 1974, it founded Casagit, the autonomous integration fund for journalists' healthcare.[4]

FNSI today includes 19 regional press associations called Assostampa (the Campania one was expelled in March 2014),[5] and three associations of Italian journalists abroad (in France, Germany, and the UK). It is member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).

Its main aims are to be a guardian of press freedom, guarantee pluralism in the media, and protect the rights of journalists, also by promoting the professional value of the category.

References
  1. "Giuseppe Giulietti eletto presidente della Fnsi". Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  2. "FNSI: Raffaele Lorusso nuovo segretario. Santo Della Volpe presidente". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  3. Articolo da Repubblica.it
  4. CASAGIT - Chi siamo Archived 2015-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana" (PDF). Rome. March 5, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
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