Fieg Assembly, a law with resources, tools and rules is needed

The general assembly of the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers, meeting today, evaluated the difficult condition of the new generations and the risks that are emerging daily, shared the importance of the valorization of digital training for young people. The editors - explains a note - thank the Undersecretary Barachini and the government for the last measures in favour of the sector and, having noted the worsening of the crisis in the press, they consider a new one essential law for publishing that guarantees economic sustainability of quality information and information pluralism, with a stable financing system of the Publishing Fund and a organic system of support interventions, which goes beyond the fragmentary and episodic nature of current contributions to publishing. Interventions to promote capillarity are then necessary. of the distribution and sales network of the press - underlines still the Federation of Publishers - and rules that protect in more effectively content producers and protect adequately intellectual property, even in the field of generative AI. Newspapers have significant growth potential, innovation and job creation: a new law for publishing - concludes Fieg - is necessary to exploit fully realize this potential.