Fanpage: Italian website that went from gossip to award-winning scoops

I did a job interview with them 10 years ago for a software developer position. (I live in the Naples area). At the time, I just graduated from college. The test was about JAVA and it was really hard. They also had a piece of their infrastructure written in Scala, that was bleeding edge at the time for such a small company. In the end I failed the interview but, like all hard interviews, I felt somehow satisfied by finally knowing what i didn't know. Kudos to them

&gt; members of an elite Italian police squad raided the Naples office of small news website. The previous day it had revealed links between elected politicians and organised groups in an illegal waste dumping racket.<p>This is so Italy it hurts. A group of journalists investigates a possible collusion between the mafia and politicians, and the police raids the journalists&#x27; office instead.

As an Italian, I have to point out that Fanpage is mainly Buzzfeed-level trash. I am surprised The Guardian is holding Fanpage in such high esteem.<p>I am not a leftist but I do appreciate good reporting from the whole political spectrum, including often the Guardian. Still, I wouldn&#x27;t touch the steaming pile of BS that Fanpage is with a ten-foot pole!

&gt;Naples office<p>&gt;”Readers began to deliver pizzas to our office as a gesture of gratitude for what we had done.”<p>I bet those were good pizzas!

Meh, as an italian i find the quality of fanpage journalism to be pretty low. It&#x27;s mostly clickbait and &quot;let&#x27;s send a leftist to a right-wing protest and see if they get beaten up or catch somebody doing nazi salutes&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m still happy they exist and are succeeding, but i feel that real investigative jouranlism is dying in Italy. With the fall of newspaper sales most outlets are just incentivized to publish low quality clickbait, or government propaganda if they live off of government grants.

Similar arc to BuzzFeed probably?

This is a surprise. I really thought that Fanpage was still a gossip news site so I never clicked any link to it. I went looking at it now and its news look better then most mainstream newspapers&#x2F;websites.

This makes complete sense. Corporate journalists have many incentives to not publish the truth or to be stenographers for the establishment. That is why corporate media and journalists hate truth tellers and fearless journalists like Julian Assange and demand censorship on Internet platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebok with their corporate &quot;factcheckers&quot; in tow as muzzlers. Access journalism wants to censor all other voices.