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Wow! Got the chance to study at Cuny Graduate Center for Journalism has been a thrilling experience. Even if we discovered that US journalism is in a big crisis, like the Italian one (but for different reasons), we felt very fascinated by it, thanks to Professors Michael Arena’ and Lonnie Isabel’ lessons. And I’m pretty sure that many of us still have the dream to became  journalists. No matter if it seems a kamikaze choice.
 

There’s another surprising aspect, by the way: we all expected to receive very theoretical skills, maybe focused on the differences between the Italian and the American models of journalism. They gave us, instead,the most essential but the most useful teaching: how to tell a story. As many books you’ve studied, as many theory you can remember, you won’t be a good journalist if you’re not able to talk to people, to impact them deeply, to let them reflect. Storytelling, in fact, is something very natural, that belongs to our condition of human beings but, at the same time, it is a very complex action to do.
 

We practiced a lot our “story telling” and we discussed about it as well. In this way the

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theory has followed up consequently. We have realized that a good story contains elements of ethics, of logic, of communication studies. So, each well told story is an incredibile source of teachings for a group of nine passionated journalists to be. We have practiced, practiced, then practiced; we haven’t slept and often we neither had time to eat. But, definitely, we’ve learnt a lot, and in only two weeks. Let me say you, guys, that team work has been an hard challenge too, but that we have got a lot also from this side of the experience.
 

So, that’s our story. It is full of passion, of fun, of will to become.