{"id":375908,"date":"2020-05-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/narration-for-the-future\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:15:59","slug":"narration-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/narration-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Narration for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We asked our authors<\/a> and our network<\/a> to answer three questions on how they are coping with this challenging moment in history. Here are the answers from the journalist, freelance reporter and author of DooG Reporter ERICA BALDUZZI<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Is there any beauty in the world, even banal, that you have rediscovered in this period? <\/h5>\n\n

These suspended and very long days made me rediscover the pleasure of watching time<\/strong> pass, of perceiving its changes in the changing colours, lights and scents of the landscapes outside the window. I realised that, in ‘normal’ times, the seasons merged into each other without me noticing, whereas now they are the yardstick by which we define ‘outside’. <\/p>\n\n

This has also led me to rediscover, because of its current impossibility, the need and pleasure<\/strong> of walking<\/strong> for a long time, of seeing the road or the path unfurl beneath one’s steps, of feeling the weight of it in one’s feet and savouring the intimate sense of freedom<\/strong>. This is one of the things I took for granted before. <\/p>\n\n

How do you think your profession has changed or will change?<\/h5>\n\n

I believe that this crisis has brought back an urgent need for stories<\/strong>. Of well-told<\/strong>, humane<\/strong> stories<\/strong>, capable of showing the complexity of a world that now – as we share on a global scale a harsh health lockdown<\/em> – is even more composite. Covid-19, it seems to me, is breaking the bank on the urgency of breaking news<\/em>, restoring<\/strong> value to a slower<\/strong> and more careful<\/strong> narrative. <\/p>\n\n

We have found that we have more time and that we are all more at the mercy of the outside world: that is why I believe that my profession will have a huge responsibility<\/strong> in the future, to pick up the pieces of this situation, to restore its complexity, to recover the myriad local stories that will be the real body of<\/em> this pandemic, to tell its scars<\/strong>. Perhaps, being from Bergamo and having lived through this period in the hotspot<\/em> of the pandemic, I feel a solid collective need to give voice to all these stories<\/strong>. A kind of narrative for the future. <\/p>\n\n

Therefore, journalism must abandon the bulimic<\/strong> rush<\/strong> of gorged progressively (and often inaccurate) news. And despite the practical worries – precariousness, what am I going to do tomorrow, what am I going to do in a month or two – this, in a way, reassures me. <\/p>\n\n

A picture, a book and a song that represent this period for you.<\/h5>\n\n

At first glance, I would say that the most representative image<\/strong> of this period is that of the military trucks<\/strong> carrying coffins out of the city of Bergamo. But there is another, which acts as a counterbalance: handwritten signs attached to the windows of some of the city’s closed shops, with inscriptions such as ‘A hug for Bergamo<\/em>‘ or ‘We will make it’<\/em>. Perhaps this is not a city that openly manifests either its grief or its solidarity: but these two images together, for me, tell the story of this period well. <\/p>\n\n

As for the song<\/strong>, I would say it is Memory<\/a><\/em>, from the beautiful Japanese film Departures<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interview with Erica Balduzzi, journalist, freelance reporter and author of DooG Reporter, on this complex historical period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tracks":0,"wds_primary__dg_original-language":0,"wds_primary__geo-map":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[796],"tags":[897],"tracks":[1171],"_dg_original-language":[1039],"_geo-map":[996],"class_list":["post-375908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-block-notes","tag-covid19-en","tracks-inspired","_dg_original-language-italian","_geo-map-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375908"},{"taxonomy":"tracks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tracks?post=375908"},{"taxonomy":"_dg_original-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_dg_original-language?post=375908"},{"taxonomy":"_geo-map","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_geo-map?post=375908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

The book<\/strong> is Annus Mirabilis<\/em><\/a>, by Geraldine Brooks<\/strong>, a novel recounting the plague epidemic of 1666 in an English village: a story of suffering, a community breaking down and coming together, superstitions and solidarity. And, finally, of rebirth. <\/p>\n\n