Interview with Alessandro Galimberti President of Italian Journalist Association

Hotel Hilton Milano, 24th of October 2021
The President of Lombardia Journalists Association (ODG Lombardia) Alessandro Galimberti was interviewed by Simona Cochi after his four-year institutional assignment in 2017.
Simona Cochi has been covering the Elections Day 2021 designated to assign the new managing board for the Italian Press Association named ODG (ODG LOMBARDIA for the regional office)
Directly from Hotel Hilton Hall, the publisher of the Italian Way video digital project, has been covering the event and investigating on the current situation in Italy.
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The Italian National Journalists Association (ODG) is a non-economic Italian public body with an associative structure founded in 1963. The Order is the collective entity that represents the professional category. It manages the Register of Journalists, registration to which is mandatory for the exercise of the profession, and has supervisory and protection functions on the work of the members. Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti (ODG) together with other bodies and professional associations, has drawn up a series of protocols on the rules of correct information which the journalist must follow in carrying out his profession. These protocols, which also serve to guarantee the protection of the rights of third parties, are binding legal norms valid for those enrolled in the Register, which integrate the right for the purpose of configuring the disciplinary offence. Alessandro Galimberti is the former President of the National Union of Italian Reporters from May 2015 to December 2019. He has worked in the editorial board of the economic-financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (Norms and Taxes section) since 2007 where he deals with justice, web law and international taxation. Previously he worked as a crime and judicial reporter in the newspaper La Provincia di Como. Graduated in Law with a thesis on "comparative criminal procedural law (Italy / USA) on criminal repenteds", he is an assistant (expert on the subject) of European information law at the Catholic University of Milan and journalistic ethics and intellectual property at the Master in journalism of the Iulm University of Milan. As councillor of the Union of Reporters with responsibility for judicial issues, he presented two technical reports to the Justice Committees of the Chamber and Senate (2009 and 2012) with proposals for amendments to the draft laws on defamation, imprisonment for journalists and criminal liability.