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affirming the Italian culture and economy, even in terms of valuable employment and of growing professional
skills.
Italy did not put in place any new measures or policies to promote the diversity of cultural expression in the
years 2014-2021, when users subscriptions to digital platforms and multinational companies supply in
streaming have grown considerably. The main recent debates among media professionals did not bring into
focus the relations between public/private broadcasters in the context of EU competition policies, nor the

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preservation of the digital content diversity.
Themes as censorship and auto-censorship are recurrent in the public debates on the media about all sorts of
subjects. Measures that could be seen as restricting content diversity in what is produced by the journalistic
profession and industry in the audiovisual and print media have never been taken into consideration in
contemporary Italy. There are not specific training programmes for journalists to raise their awareness of
culturally sensitive topics, in order to ensure the diversity of views.
In broad terms, cultural diversity and pluralism on themes as the women role in society and in the audiovisual
professions focused in numerous meetings and debates in Italy. Culturally sensitive topics, in order to ensure
the diversity of views, are also integrant parts of the courses in the Centro Italiano di studi superiori per la
formazione e l’aggiornamento in giornalismo radiotelevisivo in Perugia, andggfgfgfgf