Gian Marco Chiocci, director of TG1; Don Simone Bruno, director of “Il Giornalino”, the oldest weekly for children in Europe and editorial director San Paolo; and Luciana Squadrilli, Senior Editor of “Food & Wine Italia”; They are the winners of the 2025 edition of the “Good News Award”. The prestigious recognition, now in its sixteenth edition but with seventeen years of life, is the only one in Italy to reward the “good news”, that is, not only the correct and complete information, but also the one ready to take an extra step by telling the positive normality of the company. The delivery of the recognition, a bronze sculpture, specially melted by the artist Battista Marello, will take place on Saturday at 4 pm in the Library of the Seminary of Caserta (in Piazza Duomo in Caserta).
“The goal of the prize – underlines Michele De Simone President of the Promoting Committee of the Good News Prize – is to promote and disseminate the value of the correct and balanced information”. The day of the event will also be announced the annual activities of the prize, which from this year has been made in three: the “Good news prize in Jubilee”, the “Good News Prize” and the “Good News Book Prize” award. «The goal of our work is to promote and spread the value of correct and balanced information. The good news – explains Luigi Ferraiuolo, general secretary of the prize – was born from the hemidation of wanting to promote communicators and journalists who make good information also telling the positive sides of everyday life: because a good example is worth more than a thousand, even if committed, speeches. As a prize, then, in first person we propose and build good practices ». The meeting will be present, as always, the archbishop Monsignor Pietro Lagnese, pastor of Caserta and Capua.
The “good news prize” is organized by the UCSI Caserta APS together with the “Good news” of the “Corriere della Sera” for the “good news of the year”. It also enjoys the patronage of the Order of National Journalists and Campania; of the Fisc, Italian Catholic weekly Federation; of the FNSI and the union of the journalists from Campania and Casertani, with the assostampa; of the UCSI, Italian Catholic Press Union. Media partner “Il Mattino”, “Christian Family”, Avvenire, “All the beauty that there is-Tg2 Rai”, “Tv2000”, “Inblu2000” Radio and Agensir. The award is made in partnership with BCC Terra di Lavoro San Vincenzo de ‘Paoli; the Consortium of the DOP buffalo mozzarella, the boiled water; the Caserta Chamber of Commerce; And it is also supported by Confindustria Caserta, “hexagon”; ISELLI Law Firm; Studio Luberto; Real Mutua Assicurazioni-General Agency of Caserta; Mattei Caserta Institute; Anna Maria Alois San Leucio and Tenuta Fontana. The day of the “Good News Prize” will begin at 11 on Saturday 17 with the lesson of the cartoonist of “Il Giornalino” Stefano Zampollo at the students of the Mattei Institute of Caserta, in the Aula Magna of the Institute for Graphics.
