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Italy Has Its First Non-European Newspaper Director

Italian NGOs ANSI and Carta di Roma celebrate a first, important victory against an outdated law requiring directors of newspapers to have a European passport. Domenica Canchano, a Peruvian national who grew up in...

by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
Domenica Canchano, right, is the first non-European to head an Italian newspaper. Image: Cartadiroma

Italian NGOs ANSI and Carta di Roma celebrate a first, important victory against an outdated law requiring directors of newspapers to have a European passport. Domenica Canchano, a Peruvian national who grew up in Genoa, has taken over at Cartadiroma.org, becoming the first non-European journalist to direct an online newspaper in Italy.

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