How to turn journalists into rock stars: a Live Magazine showcase
Thu 16 April 2026
17:00
Free
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For the past twelve years, Paris-based Live Magazine has brought journalism to theatres in Europe (and beyond) and presented beautifully crafted and carefully reported stories to enthusiastic crowds (shows typically sell in hours). In this minimalist, 30-minute version of our journalism show (no fabulous live band, no elaborate lighting design, no crazy performance for you Perugia, sorry !), we’ll have first-hand dispatches from three places which have to be the most difficult locations in which to establish facts: Gaza, North Korea and the Flat Earth International Conference in the US.
This Perugia Special is a love letter to journalism through a variety of mediums: breaking news (Phil), photography (Tomas), graphic non-fiction (Doan). Come and listen to three “raconteurs” who received standing ovations as they told their stories earlier this year - and explore the behind-the-scenes of the format with Live Magazine creators.
Moderated by Florence Martin-Kessler.
Organised in association with Live Magazine.
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Doan Bui
Doan Bui is a reporter at Le Nouvel Obs. She was awarded the Albert Londres Prize (the “French Pulitzer”). She is the scenarist of the graphic novel Fake News with illustrator Leslie Plée. She is also a fiction writer (La Tour, le Pays de Nulle part).
Phil Chetwynd
Phil Chetwynd is the Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP). He leads a newsroom of 1,700 journalists based in over 150 countries. Phil has been responsible for AFP's editorial strategy prioritizing on-the-ground human storytelling in multimedia formats, the development of a world-class video service and an award-winning pivot on climate coverage. He has also made AFP a leading voice in the battle against misinformation. During a long career at AFP, Phil occupied the posts of Global Editor-in-Chief and Chief Asia Editor. He was also a foreign correspondent working in Asia and the Middle East. He began his career in British regional newspapers.
Florence Martin-Kessler
Florence Martin-Kessler is the founder and CEO of Live Magazine, a journalism show in 6 countries and 17 cities in Europe, labelled Press Innovation of the Year by the 2015 Assises Internationales du Journalisme. Since its creation Live Magazine has reached an audience of 70 000 and produced special editions with the Financial Times, Le Monde, Le Temps and Les Echos as well as book publishers and major festivals such as les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles. Live Magazine's government-sponsored outreach and media literacy program trains teachers and vocational-schools students all over France. In 2019, she was listed amongst the Fifty who make Paris by the local newspaper Le Parisien. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010-11 and sits on the boards of the CFJ (French Journalism School) and LASCAM, the French Author's Guild which manages 100 million euros of copyrights for journalists and nonfiction authors. She helped launch the newly-created Next Journalism Award and is a ...
Tomas van Houtryve
Tomas van Houtryve is a Paris based artist, photographer and filmmaker whose major works interweave investigative journalism, philosophy and metaphor. He makes images using a wide range of processes, ranging from 19th-century wet plate collodion to thermal imaging and Augmented Reality. His projects challenge our notions of identity, memory and power, often by highlighting the slippage of wartime structures into everyday life. Van Houtryve’s works are widely exhibited including at C/O Berlin (2021), Baudoin Lebon gallery, Paris (2019), BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2018), International Center for Photography Museum, New York (2017), Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (2017), Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (2017), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem (2016-2017), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2016-2017), British Museum, London (2016), Anastasia Photo Gallery, New York (2016), Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (2016), Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto (2016), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2016), East Wing Gallery, Dubai (2015), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2015), Drents Museum, Assen (2015), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona (2015) and other venues. Van Houtryve’s projects have gained significant attention among cultural institutions and the press. In 2016, the International Center of Photography broke with decades of tradition and acquired Van Houtryve’s Traces of Exile video installation, making it the first video added to the ICP’s permanent collection of over 200,000 prints. In 2014, van Houtryve’s Blue Sky Days series was published in Harper’s as the largest photo portfolio in the magazine’s 164-year history. James Estrin of the New York Times stated that “Blue Sky Days is one of the most important photo essays done in the last few years. It tackles issues that are very difficult to photograph but central to modern existence—privacy, government intrusion and modern antiseptic warfare.” A selection of van Houtryve’s formal honors include the Roger Pic Award (2019), CENTER Producer’s Choice Award (2018), CatchLight / Pulitzer Fellowship (2017), Hasselblad Foundation Research and Development Award (2017), ICP Infinity Award (2015), World Press Photo, Second Prize (2015), Aaron Siskind Fellowship (2014), POY World Understanding Award (2012), POY Photographer of the Year (2010), Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents (2006), Visa pour l’Image Young Photographer Award (2006) and numerous others. Van Houtryve was selected to document the Notre-Dame cathedral of Paris after it was devastated by fire in 2019. With rare access to the rebuilding of the Paris icon, he made images using a wide range of techniques: 19th-century wet plate collodion, traditional photo reportage, and aerial drone videography. His resulting photos were published as the cover story for the February 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine. Van Houtryve’s 2019 monograph, Lines + Lineage, was published by Radius Books. The work takes aim at America’s collective amnesia of history, addressing the missing photographic record of the period when Mexico ruled what we now know as the American West. A documentary film adaptation of the book, co-directed with Mathilde Damoisel, avant-premiered in November 2021 under the title Far West, The Hidden History. His first book, Behind the Curtains of 21st Century Communism, was published in 2012. The seven-year photographic project documents life in the last countries where the Communist Party remains in power: North Korea, Cuba, China, Nepal, Vietnam, and Laos. Van Houtryve regularly devotes time to educational outreach. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, he has given high school and college presentations in California, Colorado, District of Colombia, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and France. Van Houtryve has also made television appearances on the BBC, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, ARTE and France 24. He is an Emeritus Member of the VII Agency.
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.