I chose journalism because I loved writing, I became a communications professional when the times demanded it. My career began in the city where I was born, Ferrara, and then continued in Bologna, Milan and Rome. I became a professional journalist at the age of 23. I had the opportunity and the fortune to be able to tell stories and people, travelling on Italian roads and those of the world. What writers like Bruce Chatwin turned into art, for me have been tools for personal and professional growth. The web and the digital revolution are the sea into which I jumped 20 years ago, one of the first to plunge into the waves of the Internet, leaving behind the reassuring beach of printed paper on the wave of a change that seemed what it still is, inevitable and stimulating. Tools change and ways of circulating words change, but words, their meanings and potential do not change. For those who, like me, learned to use them as pen craftsmen and then transformed them with the tools that technology and the digital world currently offer. Especially now, in the age of images becoming messages. And especially now that social platforms demand ever better and more interesting content from the many eternalists who populate them. In this long journey through newspapers, words, places, ideas and stories, having the chance to lead Swiss Federalism and its many projects is a new, wonderful challenge and another station to stop at: as in all journeys in stages, the last one is always the most important, because it lives the present and plans the future.
Salvatore Maria Righi

I am a professional journalist with national and international experience, and I have been involved in all-round communication for about 30 years. I started my career in my hometown, Ferrara, and after enrolling in the national register (at the age of 23) I worked in Bologna, Milan, and finally Rome, where for 16 years I was head of service and correspondent for national newspapers. I had the privilege and fortune to have as editor a master like Furio Colombo, from whom I learnt the grammar and dynamics of news and how to disseminate it in the most effective way, and several others. As a correspondent, I have followed Italian news and sports events of primary importance, as well as in the international field (Olympics and other events). In the meantime, I have specialised in investigative journalism, taking part in Masters and themed Courses (two Masters as auditor in Forensic Anthropology and Advanced Investigative Sciences at the Pontifical Faculty St. Bonaventure Seraphicum and Osint Course on Open Sources, basic and advanced). Contextually and in parallel, I started my training and experience in the digital field: in 2000 I was editor of a thematic channel in the portal Ciaoweb.it, director Massimo Donelli. My professional career in information has been carried out both in the traditional print media and on the web, since its first ‘boom’ and up to the current times of the web and social media. I can therefore say that I am a professional who was trained in the old school of information and news, of their selection, editing and layout, and who has then constantly updated himself on the digital evolution of the job of communicating content and sharing it with as many readers and users as possible, working in parallel in contexts and areas such as the newspaper website and then others, in other experiences. For several years, by attending courses and refresher courses (also promoted by the Order of Journalists) on social and web issues, I have flanked my journalistic activity in the strict sense with that of social media manager and social editor, with the use and management of the main digital platforms