The editor-in-chief of Rai Radio 1 Giuseppe Malara won the fourth edition of the “Honestas Award” for Journalism. The award was presented “for the goals and successes achieved in one’s professional career” at the Provincial Palace in Brindisi.
Native of Melito Porto Salvo (Rc), Malara is a professional journalist registered with the Order of Calabria since 8 October 1998, and is a promoting member and national councilor of Figec Cisal, a new unitary union for journalists and information and communication operators.
“I dedicate this award to the many colleagues who have honored our profession during these years of war”, declared Malara.
Every year, the Honestas Award, organized by the Association “The blue suitcase” (which has the journalist and writer Fabiana Agnello as President) in collaboration with the Italian Union of Carabinieri Workers Siul Cc, also awards scholarships for legality to high school students producing multimedia content.
The videos, posted by the students themselves on their Instagram profiles, are a contribution to the daily efforts in favor of legality, through the use of languages and tools closer to young people, in contrast with the criminal propaganda that online praises violence, even against institutions, as happened with some neo-melodic singers and influencers.
The judges of the videos are made up of the Prefect of Brindisi Luigi Carnevale, the Chief Prosecutor Antonio De Donno, the mayors of the cities where the schools are located, the Fai – Puglia Antiracket Federation and the testimonial, who this year is the correspondent of “Striscia La Notizia” Rajae Bezzaz, who received the recognition of “Courageous Correspondent”. This year there were seven scholarships, thanks to the support of individual donors and sponsors: Pettolecchia Collection, Confindustria Brindisi, Snim – Salone Nautico di Puglia, Bcc of Ostuni, Palazzo Virgilio of Brindisi and Cantine Risveglio.
The scholarship went specifically to Marilù De Carlo, Francesco Pietro Ciracì, Francesco Camarda, Emanuele Cassiano, Niccolò Caliandro, Mattia De Filippis and Maira De Vito.
The Association “The blue suitcase” was founded by Fabiana Agnello, after the death threats she received from the Sacra Corona Unita, following the publication of a series of news and judicial articles. This story was told by Agnello herself in the book “The Wolf – Horned Hunting for Sacristi” (257 pages, 17.68 euros), available on Amazon, whose title is taken from the investigation which also saw the prosecutor as victims Carmen Ruggiero and the investigating judge Francesca Mariano, both under guard.
The book, which has a preface signed by Massimo Giletti, tells the story of a part of the Scu that originates in the nineties and returns to make itself felt more threatening than ever in 2020, in a region, Puglia, which is leaving its peasant origins and is becoming increasingly touristy, so much so that it is considered as “the California of Italy”. The book, in particular, talks about those criminals who in Lecce send the head of a kid stuck in a dagger to judge Francesca Mariano, who in Brindisi threaten the anti-mafia prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero with death and in Bari, between threats and winks, he infiltrates the municipal companies.
