Foreign agent laws and their increasing application to media organisations and journalists have been spreading like wildfire. This panel will explore the insidious expansion of these laws and their ch...
Antonio Zappulla
Antonio Zappulla is CEO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate philanthropic arm of Thomson Reuters and a leading international development actor fostering free, fair, and informed societies through media and legal initiatives and data intelligence.
In 2022, Antonio was knighted as an Officer of the Italian Republic for "merit acquired in the fields of public service, and social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities” under the OMRI order, the highest-ranking honour of the Italian Republic. In 2018, he ranked first in the OUTstanding list of third sector LGBT executives published by the Financial Times. In 2017, he was named a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe.
Antonio sits on the Boards of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford and the International News Safety Institute.
Prior to his present role, Antonio was Executive Producer at Bloomberg Television in charge of news, factual programming for Europe, Middle East and Africa, developing several Award-winning TV series distributed globally.
Antonio holds a Degree in Journalism, a Master’s Degree in Middle East studies, and has continued his executive education at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Eventi IJF 2025
Enemy of the people? The role of the media in an era of rising authoritarianism
The media plays a critical role in upholding democracy: presenting facts, promoting civic engagement and holding power to account. Despite journalists’ best efforts, we continue to see an alarming t...
Difendere i difensori: sostenere la giustizia di fronte alla guerra giuridica
Around the world, the law is increasingly being weaponised to silence independent reporting and to compromise journalists’ freedom, wellbeing, and financial security. As ‘lawfare’ escalates in i...
Freedom of the press is considered a fundamental pillar of successful democracies, yet trust in independent media is being eroded by the nefarious application of political power to manipulate public o...
As the war on journalism rages on, the weapons used to attack journalists and undermine free speech are rapidly expanding and evolving. Increasingly, the law is being weaponised around the globe to co...
Mentre le minacce al giornalismo indipendente continuano ad aumentare, la legge è usata come arma per compromettere la sicurezza dei giornalisti e censurarne i lavori. I media liberi e indipendenti ...
The law plays a key role in protecting freedom of speech. However, at the same time, laws ranging from anti-terrorism to criminal defamation and cybercrime are increasingly being used to silence journ...
Chi ha il miglior sistema alimentare del mondo? Come possiamo minimizzare l’impatto ambientale dell’agricoltura? Perché in alcuni paesi troviamo allo stesso tempo fenomeni di denutrizione e obesi...
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