Today we saw what is wrong in media and society and met the people who can lead the charge to fix it, but won’t. That was my takeaway from visiting Hearst Italia, a company that owns several of the top… Read More
Day 11: RAIght this way
Today was full of media visits, including an advertising/public relations firm and the national television station. We started the day at Burson-Marsteller, an advertising/PR firm that has some major clients in Europe. We met with four representatives from the company, including… Read More
Day 10: Our last stop – Milan
Today we traveled to what some call the fashion capital of the world and what we’re calling our last stop. We boarded the bus for another three-hour journey to Milan after a 6 a.m. wakeup call at our worst hotel… Read More
Day 9: Marco Polo and a Gondola
Marco Polo was rich, Venice floods more than the Mon Warf parking lot, and gondolas are incredible. That’s today in one sentence. We boarded our bus for a hefty trek from Florence to Venice early in the morning before transferring to… Read More
Day 8: Freedom in Florence
We had an off day today in Florence, our only free one of the trip. It was also Mother’s Day, and I was able to give my mom a call early in the morning (US time). I spent the day… Read More
Day 7 – From beauty to beauty: Florence
Despite the early wakeup call (6:45), I got a really good night’s sleep and was ready for the three-hour bus ride from Assisi to Florence. I got some of my story done about our dinner with the foreign correspondents on… Read More
Day 6 – Seriously. Pictures don’t do this place justice.
Today we drove by bus to Assisi, about a three-hour bus ride from Rome with a pit stop. The theme of my blogs so far has been – pictures don’t do anything justice here. Assisi is the epitome of that… Read More
Day 5: Learning how to cook (a video)
Well, today I went on Italian television and shot a video in an old temple that used to be Marlin Brando’s apartment. We went to Enel headquarters, which is the largest energy company in the world. It’s also the exclusive… Read More
Day 4: Loving your work
Today was a simpler day than the past few, consisting of two media visits, but it was definitely the most interesting so far, for several reasons. We started the day by visiting Arkage, part of the Artattack group, an Italian… Read More
Day 3: Unforgettable Dinner (The food was good, too)
Day three was all about the Vatican, and night three was possibly the highlight of my trip. We took off for the Vatican, the world’s smallest city-state, to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. Like everything else so far… Read More