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Anttoni Numminen and Rory Buccheri look at destinations with a journalistic bent


hen you’re on holiday, one of the last things you want to think about is the news. Unless you’re a journalist, of course, in which case your instinct is to run towards it. Good news: there’s a way to do both. Whether you want to investigate the flavour of it media


or review the sights with a significant journalism connection, these six travel locations across the world will do the trick. Some of these are reporting landmarks and have contributed to shaping literary classics. Others we stumbled upon by chance and they reminded us of the global media landscape’s richness and how there is no single way


to tell a story. In fact, one would struggle to find a place that isn’t impacted by the work of journalists, from Thailand – our humorous pick of the bunch – to Sicily, where words empowered the civil resistance against the corrupt status quo. We also look towards the future, from the Nordics, showing us how media is vital for any healthy democracy, to a Portuguese museum’s news academy that comprehensively covers all angles of the newsmaking process. And, since there is no one way to tell a story, there are many ways to enjoy its setting. Whether a dusty archive is your ideal day out or you’d rather stay at a very fancy hotel, we’ve got you covered.


RORY BUCCHERI In the films, we learn


from old-guard journalist Francesco La Licata about why Palermo was chosen for the assassination. “It would have been easier


to kill Falcone in Rome” where the judge spent most of his time, says La Licata. Shedding his blood in his


MuST23, Palermo


A cargo container in the middle of a barren parking lot is an unlikely storyteller of the anti-mafia journey as lived by journalists and video reporters. Yet archival materials,


including film from the Italian national broadcaster RAI and newspaper clippings, come to life in a dark container room where you’re invited to take a seat and become a spectator. The museum’s raison


d’etre is to tell the story of anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, who


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was active between 1980 and 1992. It is located a couple of


miles away from the place where Falcone was assassinated on highway A29, on 23 May 1992. The feeling of being in a


narrow train carriage as you watch the documentaries is intentional. The Museo Stazione is


located on the grounds of Capaci’s former railway station. Although this is now abandoned, you can still hear freight trains speeding by on adjacent rail tracks.


motherland was meant to make a “powerful statement” to those who were still alive and fighting on Cosa Nostra’s home turf. La Licata knew a thing


or two about those statements, having reported on the mafia wars in Palermo for regional newspaper Giornale di Sicilia until 1989, at the height of street shootings and racketeering. The museum brings to life


accounts from dozens of reporters from regional and national newspapers, as well as featuring shots from famous photojournalist Letizia Battaglia. It comes with an interactive element, too. A virtual


reality set catapults you into the action, navigating you through the debris following the highway explosion. By interacting with your


surroundings and with objects on the scene, you are invited to become an eyewitness to one of Sicily’s darkest days. You can see the impact of


the stories collected in MuST23 in the streets of Palermo today. Behind the tribunal


building where the historic maxi-trial took place, Memory Square immortalises


the names of those who fought the mafia, which are engraved in sunlit marble steps. The three-hour No Mafia


walking tour with anti- racketeering organisation Addiopizzo will take you to the key places – from the Teatro Massimo to Palermo’s most famous street market – and there won’t be any Godfather aprons or gunshot glasses at the end either.


MuST23 entry fee: €12 /£10. AddioPizzo No Mafia Tour €30/£25


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