Also this year the appointment with the Italpress Awards is renewed.
The award – established by the Italpress press agency, directed and founded by Gaspare Borsellino, now in its fourth edition – is awarded to Italian and Italian personalities who value and promote the excellence of Made in Italy in the world.
The ceremony was held at Washington Hilton in Washington DC and was presented by journalist Stefano Vaccara.
After the greetings of the president of NIAF, Robert Allegrini, and of the Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies Giorgio Mulè, the award was assigned to Attilio Fontana, president of the Lombardy Region; to Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi, permanent representative for Italy to the UN; to the Italian ambassador to Washington Marco Peronaci; to journalist Gianni Riotta; to Tommaso Tanzilli, president of the Railway Group of the Italian State. To all there was a depiction of the world with Italy in evidence made by Marco Gallotta, an artist of Italian origins, resident in New York, known worldwide for his cutting techniques of paper, drawing, painting and engraving.
“It’s a great emotion because I think it’s the crowning of a job we’ve been doing for a long time, even if the real rewards should be all embarrassment. We do nothing but try to interpret their needs and try to realize what their demands are,” said Fontana.
“At Gaspare Borsellino, I am linked with esteem, professional relationships, but also friendship and I am particularly pleased with this award coming from a press agency that plays an important role in the dissemination of correct information,” said Ambassador Marrapodi.
For the Italian ambassador in Washington, Marco Peronaci, the award “is a positive message, a message of Italian presence that grows. In a complicated world, the relationship with the United States remains of fundamental vitality on all themes of our common history.”.
According to Gianni Riotta “the work that does Italpress” also with the Italpress Awards “is a work of network, it is a work that works a lot in Italy”, “I think today more than ever to make known Italy of Americans and vice versa”.
“Our contribution is to infrastructure the country but not only. We have the ambition to become the metro of Europe and, why not, to expand our know-how also in the United States. It is one of the reasons why today it is a pleasure to receive this award from Italpress”, said Tommaso Tanzilli, president of the Railway Group of the State.
“The budget of these first four years of the Italpress Awards is certainly positive. The prize was born in New York in 2023, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 35 years of the agency and with the opening of our correspondence office in the Big Apple, accompanying the launch of the project of expansion and internationalization of Italpress – says Borsellino –. Since then the agency has grown steadily, signing over 30 partnership agreements with foreign press agencies and television companies on different continents and consolidating its presence in the United States. Last summer, after the opening of the correspondence office in the United Nations Palace, we opened a new TV corner in Piazza Italia, in Times Square, in the heart of Manhattan.”.
A path, says the director responsible for Italpress, who “will also continue this year with new collaboration agreements with foreign press agencies and television stations and with the opening of other correspondence offices in strategic areas, to offer increasingly direct information”.
During the course of the initiative two talks were held: the director of the newspaper La Sicilia, Antonello Piraneo, spoke with Ambassador Paolo Zampolli on the theme “I give America: the relationship between Trump and Italy”; “Sicily, the curse of the Great Beauty”, was instead the conductor of the interview of the deputy director of La Sicilia, Mario Barresi, to the Vice President of the Chamber, Giorgio Mulè.
The ceremony was supported as the main partner of Beyond-Medov Group, Enel, FS Group, GKSD, Intesa Sanpaolo, Menarini, Pirelli, Terna and Webuild.
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