The National Council of the Order on May 4th, by majority, reiterates - with small variations - that one can become a practitioner even without having been hired in an editorial office, under the control of a director. It is the third resolution in this sense, which for once the Ministry of Justice (the body that supervises the work of professional associations) has endorsed and twice sent back. These two times the ministry acted on the basis of appeals presented by the minority councilors of the Order. What is the subject of the dispute? The Order starts from a real problem. It's urgent. The internship is regulated by the law on the Order of Journalists, number 69 of 1963.
In sixty years, journalism has changed a lot, not in DY Leads its basic rules, but in its tools and working methods. New figures have arrived in the field and the traditional access to the profession has been overturned. We used to enter the editorial offices through hiring, now we work in the most varied forms of precarious employment, and the editorial offices are full of veterans. It is therefore right to change, giving the possibility of accessing the journalist exam to those who actually carry out the profession. It would also be right to change the exam, which is also linked to the journalism of decades ago.
The issue is that the 1963 law establishes, in articles 33 and 34, that to become a practitioner and access the exam after 18 months one must enter an editorial office with a minimum number of professional journalists and a responsible director. It is a state law and to modify it another law approved by Parliament is required. TRAINING The current majority of the Order, led by president Carlo Bartoli, has decided to force this step and proceed with its own resolution. The first is dated 8 November: you can also demonstrate that you have worked as a journalist for six months and have been paid; at that point the regional council to which one belongs provides access to a training course, with the assistance of a tutor and then one registers for the exam.