Cayli Messina, Baris (2017) When a Journalist defies more than the mafia: The legacy of Giuseppe Fava and Italian anti-mafia Culture. In: The Italian Antimafia, New Media and the Culture of Legality. University of Toronto Press, pp. 62-83. ISBN 9781487512484
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Abstract
The assassination of Fava was not an entirely surprising event, given his unrelenting, concise disclosures about mafia crimes in print, tel- evision broadcasts, and film. His attacks against the mafia’s expand- ing power in Catania reached their peak in the early 1980s, when the different mafia clans increased their illicit revenues through their entrepreneurial skills and collaboration with corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.I focus on Fava’s ethical codes and explore how they constitute a legacy of socially committed journalism, which functions as both a weapon to defeat mafia organizations and culture, and contributes to the formation of antimafia writers working in online journalism today. In order to understand the significance of Fava’s ethical practices of investigative reporting on the mafia in the 1970s and the early 1980s, it is beneficial to situate him in relation to a few of the Italian journalists who conducted inquiries into Cosa Nostra in the postwar period.
| Keywords: | Fava, journalism, antimafia |
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| Subjects: | L Social studies > L300 Sociology |
| Divisions: | College of Social Science > School of Social & Political Sciences |
| ID Code: | 49811 |
| Deposited On: | 13 Jun 2022 09:38 |
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