Sabrina Giannini (Rai 3), Siegmund Ginzberg (The sheet), Paolo Giordano (Corriere della Sera), Thomas Mackinson (Il Fatto Quotidiano), Luigi Manconi (La Repubblica) and aNNA ZAFESOVA (The press).
These are the journalists who will receive the Preminethe longest -running and authoritative recognition dedicated to information in Italy which celebrates its 65th edition this year, reaffirming its commitment in the enhancement of independent and quality journalism. Promoted and supported by Pirelli, The award has distinguished itself for over six decades for the ability to identify and reward those voices that best interpret the present with depth, lucidity and critical sense.
Also for this edition, the jury has selected six journalists who They particularly distinguished themselves by professional rigor, narrative talent and civil commitment.
The prizes will be delivered to Milan at the Piccolo Teatro Grassi, Monday 29 September, at 7.30 pm.
During the ceremony, the Pirelli Prize for the school, Now in its second edition, reserved for the best article or investigation into the world of education. A recognition wanted by Pirelli to support a journalism that knows how to tell the educational, social and cultural challenges that cross the country seriously and passion. The winners of the Pirelli Prize for the 2025 school are Gianna Fregonara and Orsola Riva, Journalists of Corriere della Sera.
The jury of Il Premolino also decided to honor the memory of with a special mention Viktorija Roščyna, The Ukrainian journalist tortured and killed for her reports.
The jury of Il Premolino 2025 is made up of: Chiara Beria di Argentine (president), Piero Colaprico (vice -president), Giulio Anselmi, Antonio Calabrò, Francesco Costa, Ferruccio de Bortoli, Mattia Feltri, Milena Gabanelli, Enrico Mentana, Donata Righetti, Beppe Severgnini, Gian Antonio Stella, Benedetta Tobagi, Carlo Verdelli.
“It is not a prize like many others, it is not a ritual that has been repeated every year since 1960 and it is no longer peacetime like what we have lived since September 1945. September 80 years ago,” he comments Chiara Beria di Argentine«The premiel is first of all a Recognition of the professional value of women and men who with seriousness, commitment and balance make witnesses of an increasingly complex present if not dramatic to tell. Not to mention the climate, also favored by social networks, of manipulations, fake news, opposite partisanosities, propaganda. A time and an atmosphere to which to defend the democracy conquered at a high price from our fathers it is decisive to respond by defending the pluralism of opinions, the continuous research of comparison, respect for the reasons of others and rationality opposite to simplifications and fanaticisms. With the 6 awarded of this edition who have the most diverse personal and professional biographies and work or collaborate in newspapers and television newspapers of positions, even ideally opposed on the stage wanted by Grassi, Strehler and Vinchi in the place of unspeakable fascist torture The hundreds of journalists killed in Gaza or killed after having suffered tremendous violence such as the young and courageous Ukrainian reporter Viktorija Roščyna go up. But not only blood: you approach one step away from the abyss even by censoring different opinions and forgetting the past. Peace, social justice, refusal of violence, defense of human rights. Of course, a prize cannot do much but in the golden register of the premoline stand out among the many names those of Mauro De Mauro, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Walter Tobagi, Leonardo Sciascia, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, David Grossman who with their writings in the press have affected the consciousness of many. For all this 65 years are just a beginning ».
For Marco Tronchetti Proveraexecutive vice -president of Pirelli: “The diffusion of the digital economy and the growing use of the AI in many sectors of social, cultural and productive life requires increasing cultural knowledge and skills. For this reason, public and private investments are needed to feed training, research, technological and social innovation. The school “, he continues,” is fundamental for the development of all these skills and a civic and social consciousness and the Pirelli Award linked to the “Premiolino”, a prestigious recognition to enhance the quality and independence of information, has the objective of enhancing it. This year the investigation and timeliness of the chronicles of Gianna Fregonara and Orsola Riva will be awarded the work on the pages of the Corriere della Sera, to reiterate the importance of knowledge and learning, fundamental components of critical knowledge and the sense of civil liability. Because in the quality of the school there is our future ».
As per tradition, the winners will receive a cash prize together with a parchment of hand woven and conceived by Riccardo Manzi, Symbol of a prize that looks to the history of Italian journalism, but that – after dealing with the present – is projected with confidence and courage towards the challenges of the future.
The 65th edition of Il Premolino represents not only a celebratory moment, but also an important opportunity for reflection and comparison on the role of the journalist in today’s world.
