Speakers

Pierluigi Bizzini

Freelance Journalist

Pierluigi Bizzini is a freelance journalist based in Sicily. He is a member of FADA Collective. His research focuses on migration, displacement, and algorithmic surveillance within the Mediterranean area. He covers environmental issues in Sicily, focusing on water issues. He is a former fellow reporter for Algorithmwatch. His stories have been published by Die Zeit, Al Jazeera, WOZ, EUobserver, and others. He is among the nominees for the European Press Prize 2024. He works as a curator at The Syllabus.

He strongly believes in collaborative and participatory journalism, striving to involve the communities and the people featured in the stories in virtuous processes of literacy and dissemination. His goal is to spread journalistic practice to disadvantaged communities in the rural areas of Southern Italy.