Umbria Governor Catiuscia
Marini thanked ANSA news agency for its efforts in helping
promote the region at an event titled "Telling the story of
excellence: ANSA news for spreading the best of Umbria in Italy
and the world".
The event, which was held on Wednesday at the Cucinelli
Theatre in the medieval village of Solomeo, just outside
Perugia, showed how ANSA is raising awareness of Umbria's many
treasures to help spread news about the region to the world.
ANSA's Umbrian headquarters also celebrated its
30-year-anniversary for the occasion.
In addition to Marini, participants in the event included
Umbrian fashion designer Bruno Cucinelli, ANSA President Giulio
Anselmi, and ANSA Editor-in-Chief Luigi Contu.
"ANSA provides news that tells the story of what a territory
and its people express," Marini said.
"I thank you all for how you are helping us tell the story of
Umbria, which is on its feet after the earthquake, by promoting
success stories that go beyond an agenda of critical issues,"
she said.
Anselmi said ANSA is a news agency "that tries to bring
together the larger world with the hometown square, by telling
the stories of both with credibility".
The city of Perugia was ANSA's fourth stop on a tour that has
already visited Naples, Bologna, and Trieste.
Anselmi noted that Umbria is among the five most well-known
Italian regions in the world.
"We want to let the entire world know about the positive
things and the treasures Umbria has to offer," he said.
"And we are doing it by focusing on accurate and credible
news, which is important in a time of fake news," he said.
Contu said the news business is going through a "unique
moment".
"If we think back to our initial launch in 1945, it already
had the character of a tweet, and so we can say that we were
already born digital," Contu said.
"This digital challenge has led us to keep pace with the
times, and to have 28 million unique users on the website, with
all the correspondents in Italy who read about the country
through the eyes of ANSA," he said.
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