Abstract
Prix Italia is an international media competition that takes place in Italy every year. Awards are given in the fields of radio, television, and online broadcasting. Prix Italia was founded on the island of Capri in 1948 by the Italian public broadcasting station RAI and has thus been one of the oldest media awards. The festival travels around the country, and each year it takes place in a different Italian city with a long cultural tradition. The prize awarded at this festival is very prestigious; nevertheless, unlike at Prix Europa, the laureate is not selected by all participants but solely by an appointed festival jury. This chapter addresses the history, the prestigious character of the event and compares it to the IFC.
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RAI (Rai) is an Italian public broadcasting station. It operates many television and radio stations. It was established in 1924 as the Unione Radiofonica Italiana (URI), later renamed to the Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI). It had this name until 1954 when the meaning of the RAI abbreviation changed to Radiotelevisione Italiana. RAI is among the most significant broadcasters in Europe. In 1950, RAI became one of the 23 broadcasters which established the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
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Graham Ellis is a British journalist. He joined BBC in 1984, worked as a producer and editor across a range of output on radio and television before being appointed Controller of Radio Production in 1999. Ellis was made Deputy Director of Radio in 2013, today he is a former Trustee of the BBC Pension Scheme.
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The delegates came from Austria, the City of Vatican, Egypt, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Monaco, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and Trieste (a free territory at that time). Participants from the USA and other countries as well as representatives of the UNESCO came to “have a look”.
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In 2018, 57,749.50 euros was collected in the form of fees. Specifically, it was 21,750 euros in the radio section from twenty-nine participants, 23,250 euros in the TV section from thirty-one participants, and 12,750 euros in the online section from seventeen participants. This money was subsequently divided into the rewards for the winners. The winner of each category (documentary, reportage, drama and so on) received 7,150 euros (PRIX ITALIA, © 2018).
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Signis, or the World Catholic Association for Communication, is an international nongovernmental organisation founded in 2001. Signis unites more than a hundred countries, and its main objective is to promote peace, good will, human rights, and peaceful communication and to keep the international relations at a good level.
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Monica Maggioni (*1964, Italy) is an Italian journalist and the former Chair of the RAI and the EBU.
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Jens Jarisch (*1969, Germany) is an independent radio maker, producer, coach, and tutor.
Works Cited
Bouček, Zdeněk. 2003. Prix Italia 2002. Svět rozhlasu 9: 3–7. ISSN 1213-3817.
Interviews Conducted via the Method of Oral History
OH Braun. 2019. An interview with Peter Leonhard Braun, a phone interview, May 14.
OH Ellis. 2018. An interview with Graham Ellis, September 27, Prix Italia, Capri.
OH Jarisch. 2018. An interview with Jens Jarisch, September 28, Prix Italia, Capri.
OH Sandell. 2018. An interview with Neil Sandell, October 17, Prix Europa, Berlin.
Festival Brochures
Ellis, Graham. 2018a. Welcome Speech of the Secretary General. Capri: Prix Italia.
———. 2018b. The memory of the future – The history we tell today is our tomorrow. Vol. 11. Capri.
Maggioni, Monica. 2018. The memory of the future – The history we tell today is our tomorrow. Vol. 5. Capri.
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Reková, T. (2024). Prix Italia. In: European Radio Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57185-5_10
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