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The Italian Political System has been marked by several important corruption scandals. Especially when prominent figure are alleged, scandals fill newspapers pages for several days, increasing the attention of the public opinion among the topic. However, the media's interest in such cases is not constant over time. Within a few weeks, the attention to the event ebbs away and all the wiretappings, scoops and declarations are forgotten. Through this study we propose an analysis of the so-called newspapers «attention cycle», namely an analysis of the amount of article that the main Italian newspapers devote to a sample of Italian corruption cases. We will try to highlight how over time the journalistic coverage of a scandal is articulated, in order to understand how they arise, which are the elements of greater newsworthiness and above all if they provide a complete account of the various phases of the event. Our main hypothesis is that journalistic news reporting represent a limited and incomplete storytelling of the event, which focuses on the mechanisms of revelation and the initial phase of the scandal, but offers little coverage of the actual sentences of legal trials or of any consequences of the event. Our data will demonstrate that Italian newspapers produce a «parallel trial», that instead of being carried out in a courtroom, it is carried out on the pages of a newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The end of the nineteenth century is marked by a lot of scandals; among the most striking there are the Affaire Dreyfus and Emanuele Notarbartolo's murder: we republish two articles on these subjects by Guglielmo Ferrero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Third Prince of his family’s branch, Victor Amadeus of Savoy-Carignano (1690-1751) was particularly known for a personal life marked by scandals. Son of Emmanuel Philibert the “Sordomuto” (lit. the deaf-mute), he was second in line for the succession to the throne until 1699. Soon after he married Vittoria Francesca in 1714, the legitimated daughter of King Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, the couple ran into some financial trouble and decided to move to France in 1718. They often drew attention for having a comfortable and cultured life despite their limited finances. The Prince’s behavior was frowned upon by Victor Amadeus II and his son after him, Carlo Emanuele III, contributing to the negative reputation which would follow him even after his death. Third Prince of his family’s branch, Victor Amadeus of Savoy-Carignano (1690-1751) was particularly known for a personal life marked by scandals. Son of Emmanuel Philibert the “Sordomuto” (lit. the deaf-mute), he was second in line for the succession to the throne until 1699. Soon after he married Vittoria Francesca in 1714, the legitimated daughter of King Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, the couple ran into some financial trouble and decided to move to France in 1718. They often drew attention for having a comfortable and cultured life despite their limited finances. The Prince’s behavior was frowned upon by Victor Amadeus II and his son after him, Carlo Emanuele III, contributing to the negative reputation which would follow him even after his death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Partiendo de la idea según la cual el periodismo es, en regímenes de tradición liberal democrática, un freno a la arbitrariedad de los que gobiernan y de que los medios de comunicación, y en especial la prensa escrita, han acometido la tarea de vigilancia de los casos de corrupción acaecidos en la España democrática, se indaga sobre los mecanismos que dificultan el ejercicio de un periodismo de denuncia de la corrupción política y se proponen orientaciones para acercar la ética periodística a la ética cívica propia de la democracia. | Starting from the idea that journalism is, in liberal democratic regimes tradition, a brake on the arbitrariness of those who govern and that the media, particularly the print media, has undertaken the task of monitoring corruption cases occurred in democratic Spain, we will research on the mechanisms that hinder the exercise of journalism exposing corruption and we will propose policy guidelines to approach journalistic ethics to the civic ethics of democracy itself.

This article is on the Media process of public communication focused on a political scandal named mensalão. The corruption in the Brazilian policy is a recurrent issue in national media and even international. Under this perspective we propose to delineate some implications of the media upon debates of public communication issues. For these we are using Hjarvard studies (2012), Fausto Neto (2006, 2008) and Sodré (2002). On public communication we searched Weber (2009), Duarte (2007) and Brandão (2007). Having observed the site Rede de escândalos we can conclude that the media of issues of public interests is still at a preliminary phase, leaving these issues open to be discussed in a no longer future, hopefully.

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The article presents an analysis of a 1769 court case against a priest from the Tuscan community of Bientina, situated at what was then the border of an enormous swamp zone. Behind the accusations or arrogant conduct and of illicit relations with a local girl hurled against the priest by some rich inhabitants of Bientina, one finds a battle against the collective administration of the swamps, which the upper class wanted to be privatized.

The article suggests an alternate account of the 1992-1994 political crisis in Italy and events that underline the way in which the political competition had been affected by the scandals: the moral crusades against corruption had political impact in that period because they had been relayed and supported by emerging political actors in order to challenge the established elites and to claim a leading role in reshaping the political system.