Stefano Polli, deputy director of the Italian news agency, ANSA, has been awarded the "Caravella del Mediterraneo" prize for Infomigrants.
ANSA deputy director Stefano Polli has won the prize "Caravella del Mediterraneo" for contributing to the conception and development of the multi-lingual service InfoMigrants, a joint project of ANSAmed, France Media Monde and Deutsche Welle.
The innovative multimedia service was launched over a year ago and provides news, stories and information for would-be migrants or those who have already set out on the journey to Europe.
Polli became ANSA's deputy editor in 2014. Before that he served as central editor-in-chief for ANSA and ANSA International, as well as covering some of the most important international events: from meetings (EU, G7, G8, G20, UN, NATO) to wars (first Gulf war and Iraq war, Balkan wars, Albanian civil war, conflicts in the Horn of Africa). He was ANSA's lead reporter covering the Italian President of the Republic from 1990 to 1998.
Polli is a professor of European journalism at Rome's Lumsa University and the author of several books about Europe and news agency journalism.