The fourth edition of the Italpress Awards in Washington

 For the Italian Ambassador to Washington, Marco Peronaci, the award “is a positive message, a message of Italia’s growing presence. In a complex world, our relationship with the United States remains of fundamental importance across all aspects of our shared history.”

 According to Gianni Riotta ‘the work carried out by Italpress’ – including through the Italpress Awards – ‘is about building networks; it’s a network-based endeavour, and it works very well in Italy’, ‘I believe that today, more than ever, it helps Americans get to know Italia and vice versa’.

“Our contribution is to develop the country’s infrastructure, but that’s not all. We aspire to become Europe’s leading metro operator and, why not, to expand our expertise to the United States as well. This is one of the reasons why it is a pleasure today to receive this award from Italpress,” said Tommaso Tanzilli, chairman of the Ferrovie dello Stato Group.

“The overall assessment of these first four years of the Italpress Awards is certainly positive. The Awards were launched in New York in 2023, to coincide with the agency’s 35th-anniversary celebrations and the opening of our correspondent’s office in the Big Apple, marking the start of Italpress’s expansion and internationalisation project – says Borsellino –. Since then, the agency has experienced steady growth, signing over 30 partnership agreements with foreign news agencies and television broadcasters across various continents whilst, at the same time, consolidating its presence in the United States. Last summer, following the opening of the correspondent’s office in the United Nations Building, we inaugurated a new TV corner at Piazza Italia, in Times Square, in the heart of Manhattan.”

A path, says the editor-in-chief of Italpress, that ‘will continue this year with new partnership agreements with foreign press agencies and television stations, and with the opening of further correspondent offices in strategic areas, to provide increasingly up-to-the-minute news’.

Two talks were held during the event: Antonello Piraneo, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper La Sicilia, spoke with Ambassador Paolo Zampolli on the topic ‘I’ll give you America: the relationship between Trump and Italia’; ‘Sicily, the curse of the Great Beauty’ was the central theme of the interview conducted by Mario Barresi, deputy editor of *La Sicilia*, with Giorgio Mulè, Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.

The ceremony was supported by the following main partners: Beyond-Medov Group, Enel, Gruppo FS, GKSD, Intesa Sanpaolo, Menarini, Pirelli, Terna and Webuild.