Italian Journalism and the Credibility Issue: A Comparative Analysis

This paper focuses attention on the credibility issue within Italian journalism. In the first part it attempts to define what credibility is; then it investigates possible “affinities” between journalistic models and credibility models; and lastly it endeavours to make out why a journalistic system such as the Italian one is not perceived as credible. The considerations to emerge in this first part will constitute the second part of the paper, which focuses on a research conducted through interviews with privileged observers of the Italian information system. These interviews helped us to a better understanding of the dynamics and issues in the world of Italian journalism, and to observe the awareness and possible counter-measures to the credibility crisis that the Italian information system is facing.