A manifesto for the Romantic School of journalism
Fri 17 April 2026
16:00
Free
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At last year’s festival, Lea Korsgaard, co-founder and editor for Zetland, and Joshi Herrmann, founder and editor for The Mill, gave a session about how journalism companies need to stop thinking about news as ‘information’ and focus on connecting with people on an emotional level. The panel sparked dozens of messages and discussions with people who were in the room, and over the past year they have codified their ‘Romantic School’ of journalism into a manifesto and tested it as a playbook in their own organizations and others they support.
In this session, they will explain the manifesto, reveal the results of their work and explain how newsrooms can use these principles to radically increase their connection with audiences and increase reader revenue.
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Joshi Herrmann
Joshi Herrmann is the founder and editor-in-chief of Mill Media, a new local news company which publishes in the UK cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool and Birmingham. The model is based on paid subscriptions and delivered via email newsletters. Previously, he worked as a journalist for a decade, including reporting for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and The Evening Standard.
Lea Korsgaard
Lea Korsgaard is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Zetland, a Danish media company dedicated to journalism as a force of good, now counting more than 40,000 paying and 50+ full-time staff. Zetland's innovative approach to bringing text and audio together and a deep engagement with its audience now serves as the platform for not only the daily journalism, but also a publishing house and the subsidiary Good Tape that provide secure AI transcription service used by journalists in more than 100 countries. Lea spends most of her time navigating the intersection between journalism, creativity, technology and business development, always with a dedicated focus on the needs and aspirations of those that the media are here to serve: The public. Lea is the author of several books, among them the highly praised The Media User's Manual to the Age of Lies. She is also chairman of the board at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, DMJX.
Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo
Il Festival Internazionale del Giornalismo di Perugia è un evento annuale che riunisce professionisti dei media, esperti di comunicazione e appassionati di informazione da tutto il mondo. Si svolge nel centro storico di Perugia e offre conferenze, dibattiti, workshop e opportunità di networking sui temi più rilevanti del giornalismo contemporaneo.
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Palazzo dei Priori (Perugia)
Il Palazzo dei Priori, o comunale, è uno dei migliori esempi d'Italia di palazzo pubblico dell'età comunale. Sorge nella centrale Piazza IV Novembre a Perugia, in Umbria. Si estende lungo Corso Vannucci fino a via Boncambi. È ancora oggi sede di parte del Municipio e, al terzo piano, della Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria. Deve il suo nome ai Priori, la massima autorità politica al governo della città in epoca medievale.