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Donna Moderna, the Mondadori Group brand edited by Annalisa Monfreda, has chosen Storytel, Europe’s leading audiobook platform, for its debut in the world of podcasts.

And it will do so with ten new stories that are an ideal extension of the Donne come noi experience, the project dedicated to female empowerment which is already a book, a theatre show that continues to tour Italy, and a training course with stages around the country to inform our readers.

Every Wednesday, from 25 September, for ten consecutive weeks, the Storytel platform will launch a brand new podcast, entirely conceived, written and spoken by the staff of Donna Moderna. The voices of the journalists will alternate with those of the protagonists: normal women who have realised extraordinary achievements and distinguished themselves for their strength and tenacity and shown themselves able to overturn the gender stereotypes to challenge the rules of the game and conquer new space.

A full list of episodes:

25 September Donne che non abbassano la testa (Women that don’t bend)

                        An entrepreneur, a judge and a reporter in the sights of the mafia

2 October        La rivincita delle scienziate (The revenge of women scientists)

                        Lucia Votano, a researcher born in 1947, and a battle still to be won

9 October       Ragazze nel pallone (Football girls)

                        Sara Gama, the World Cup with the national team and the long road to equality in sport

16 October      Una chef controcorrente (A chef against the grain)

                        Cristina Bowerman and the rise of female Italian chefs in starred kitchens

23 October      L’altra metà dell’architettura (The other half of architecture)

Sandy Attia and the challenge of sustainable design in a world of male archistars

30 October      Noi, mamme acrobate (Acrobat mums)

A journey through the dreams and problems of single mothers, from choice or necessity

6 November    La rivoluzione verde (The green revolution)

The Anglo-Italian designer Orsola De Castro talks about a different and more ethical fashion

13 November Io sono super abile   (I am super-capable)

Paralympic athlete Martina Caironi and the desire to start again with a broken body

20 November Donna per scelta (Women from choice)

Arianna and the others, born in the wrong body, and their difficult transition

27 November Steve Jobs è femmina (Steve Jobs is female)

The three very young Italian programmers that are designing the digital future

Sign up on eee.storytel.it/donnamoderna and download the Storytel app to your smartphone or tablet where you can find the Donne come noi podcast and start listening. With the app and the tag #donnamoderna you can discover, as well as the episodes of the podcast, a series of titles (non-fiction, novels and podcasts) published by Storytel and recommended by the staff of the magazine. Registration will give you a free 30-day trial of the service – after which you can decided to continue your subscription at a cost of €9.99 per month – and provides access to the entire Storytel catalogue, that includes some 100,000 titles in three languages.

Donna Moderna, is Italy’s leading network for women that through the magazine reaches 3.5 million readers every month (source: Audipress 2019/I) and on web and social media channels, a digital audience of 10.3 million unique users per month (Source: Audiweb Mar-May 2019) to which should be added over 1,300,000 fans on Facebook, more than 500,000 followers on Twitter and 175,000 on Instagram.

Storytel was founded in 2005 and is a digital pioneer in the market for audiobooks, a sector that is growing rapidly. Storytel is currently the biggest streaming service in Northern Europe for audiobooks and operates in 19 markets around the world. Launched in Italy in June 2018, in the Italian market it boasts a catalogue of over 65,000 titles in English and around 4,000 in Italian, including many exclusives and podcasts. The offer was further enhanced in the summer with the addition of Spanish, with around 3,000 titles, reflecting the value of linguistic variety that has always underpinned the international spirit of Storytel.

Milano, 20 September 2019 – INTERNI will take part in the fourth edition of Café della stampa organised as part of Cersaie 2019, the international ceramics fair for architecture and bathroom design, which will take place in Bologna  from 23 to 27 September. For the occasion the interiors e contemporary design magazine of the Mondadori Group has organised an event to discuss the synergic relationship between the surface of a new building and the environmental context in which it is placed.

Ceramic identity. Surfaces and architectural design is the title of a lecture to be given by the Milanese architect Cino Zucchi, founder of the studio CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti. Zucchi – who has already used ceramics and brickwork in many designs, both for their aesthetic qualities and sustainability – says that contemporary architecture often operates in a historically stratified context, in which buildings are constructed for contexts that were very different from current ones. The role of contemporary architecture is to interpret today’s needs while respecting the multiplicity of styles with which it has to interact.

 Ceramic identity. Surfaces and architectural design will take place on 25 September from 12 o’clock at the Café della stampa (Centro Servizi, Agorà dei Media) and the event will be introduced by Gilda Bojardi, editor-in-chief of INTERNI.

For full details: www.internimagazine.it

Leadership is not an innate quality, but rather a learned skill: in means learning to take decisions, being masters of your own life, choosing. And it is useful to live well, at home, as well as at work.

This is why Donna Moderna, the magazine edited by Annalisa Monfreda is organising. along with Facebook Italia a training day in Bari on 28 September – at the Impact Hub Fiera del Levante, in Viale Volga – and in Florence on 12 October at the Impact Hub, in Via Panciatichi 16.

The programme features a lab on new leadership curated by the Mondadori Group weekly with exercises “borrowed” from improvisational theatre which will serve to transmit the characteristics of new leadership: politeness, listening, empathy, and “networking”.

The two days will also feature laboratories on innovation and social marketing from the Facebook program “Vivere Digitale” in partnership with Freeformers, where participants will discover the bases of   design thinking, or better, a creative approach to problem solving. There will also be an analysis of social networks and the new job opportunities they offer. The programme is part of the Facebook Binario F project, dedicated to the training and development of digital skills in Italy, with courses and initiatives organised across the country.

An extract from the show “Donne come noi” (Women Like US) written by Giulia Minoli and Emanuela Giordano, will also be shown. Drawn from the book written by these two Donna Moderna journalists, it is the tale of Italian women that share an ability to overcome their own limits, transforming obstacles into opportunities.

In conclusion, in Bari, Liliana di Donato the magazine’s managing editor, will moderate a discussion with un talk Monica Filograno from the municipality of Ruvo di Puglia which will focus on the issues discussed during the day, while in Florence the same discussion will be moderated by Donna Moderna’s Montserrat Fernandez Blanco,  with Barbara Minotti, head of communication at Facebook Italia, who will talk about her professional experience.

The courses and laboratories will run from 10 am until 6 pm.

Both days are open for 60 female participants.
The cost of the day is €15 and Facebook will offer the innovation laboratory for free. Closer to the date, participants will receive an email with full details about the event. The ticket will bear the participant’s name.

Enrolment will close on Wednesday 25 September for Bari and Wednesday 9 October for Florence.

For info and bookings please go to: www.abbonamenti.it/donnecomenoi

Milano, 16 September 2019 – INTERNI will take part in the London Design Festival 2019 with two events featuring some of the most representative protagonists from the world of design culture. The common theme linking the work of the speakers will be a conceptual approach to design and a constant search fro new ways to modulate everyday spaces. Architects and designers who bring together art, design, architecture and urban planning to create new scenarios that are appropriate for contemporary urban locations.

Urban Regeneration: new city, new habitat, new technology, is the title of the first talk organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London, during which the destiny of the contemporary metropolis will be examined. In a discussion moderated by David Turnbull, director of Atopia Research, the speakers will be Alessandro Melis (Studio Heliopolis 21 Architetti Associati and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2020 Architecture Biennale in Venice) and Andrew Waugh (Waugh Thistleton Architects), two protagonists of international standing in the world of architecture, and engaged in the issue of environmental quality, who will exchange ideas about new city design, and comparing the Italian background and know-how with Anglo-Saxon design culture. The event, which is open to the public, will take place on Tuesday 17 September at 6.30 pm, at the Italian cultural Institute in London (39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX) which will be transformed into a unique stage for the occasion.

A subsequent event will take place on Friday 20 September at 6 pm at the Saatchi Gallery (Duke of York’s HQ King’s Rd London SW3 4RY – Conference Room) with an encounter, organised in collaboration with I-Made, an event for which INTERNI is a media partner, and which, under the artistic leadership of Giulio Cappellini, celebrates the excellence of Made in Italy and the exclusive skills of Italian artisans and manufacturers.

The Renewed Quality of Made in Italy Design is the topic that will be discussed by Aldo Cibic, an author who combines the iconic nature of Italian product design with  urban planning, from the Italian studio Lazzarini Pickering Architetti, designers with a tailor-made attitude to projects of varying scale, and Richard Woods, the British artist whose work covers painting, sculpture and installations. The event will be moderated by Deyan Sudjic, director of The Design Museum in London.

The events have been organised in collaboration with di: Inhabits hotels, Cappellini an Cantina Zuani.

For more information, please go to: www.internimagazine.it

Grazia, the Mondadori Group magazine edited by Silvia Grilli presents Together – Made in Grazia the third collectors’ issue, available on newsstands and at selected bookshops from 17 September.

Following the first issue dedicated to great Italian talent and the second which explored the future, this new edition will examine issues such as: inclusion, the fight against prejudice and discrimination, safeguarding the planet, the battle against digital bullying and probes new ways of working “together” to build a better world and the necessity to get active to combat all forms of discrimination.

“If divisions prevent us from finding a better way, with this special publication we want to contribute to overcoming the barriers, advancing rights and their constant defence. Because rights are never definitive, but are always provisional if we do not continuously fight to safeguard them,” declared the editor of Grazia Silvia Grilli.

The most significant contributions to this issue are by: writer and winner of the Premio Strega Edoardo Albinati who describes the discovery of beauty in mental  distress, Marco Balzano winner of the Flaiano, Campiello, Bagutta prizes and the Prix Méditerranée who writes about the encounter of cultures that finally open up after a period of diffidence.

Also the writer Teresa Ciabatti interviews Renato Zero and does not refrain from singing of the utopia of a better world. Oscar-winner Jane Fonda reflects on the taboos in a society that excludes women because of their age while pop star Bebe Rexha makes peace with her body and recounts how only love and pride in ourselves can demolish discriminations against our bodies.

Another Oscar-winner, the director Oliver Stone, denounces the conformism of Hollywood, and in an intense interview with Pulitzer prize-winner Michael Cunningham, screenwriter Ivan Cotroneo looks at the fight against homophobia, which cannot exist without a fight against sexism, racism and anti-Semitism.

Extensive space is also given to fashion, with spectacular images in honour of an idea of beauty able to embrace also imperfections and articles inspired by nature and encounters between different cultures.

Together – Made in Grazia aims to probe the human soul, put itself in the shoes of others, and to embrace differences.

For Mediamond this third collection from Grazia once again confirms the great interest of the advertising market, marked by an excellent +23% increase in ad pages and a rise of +17% in ad revenues compared with the last issue published at the beginning of 2019.

The Mondadori Group brands will take part in the forthcoming Milano Licensing Day, the networking event that brings together the main operators in the Italian licensing and brand extension market, which will take place on 10 September at the Hotel Nhow in Via Tortona 35.

Among the opportunities offered by the brands of the Mondadori Group, Italy’s leading publisher of magazines and digital content, is an innovative offer of content and services the circulate around the passions and interests of readers, engaging communities with web sites, on social networks, magazines and events.

The licensing programme includes brands in the kids sector, cooking titles and, from this year, also the wellness sector with MyPersonalTrainer, the web site for wellness and physical fitness. As well, of course, as CasaFacile, a point of reference for lovers of interiors and daily living, and Focus, Italy’s most widely-read monthly, and the publishing brand for popular science and entertainment.

The Milano Licensing Day will also see the confirmation of the Focus Junior “system”: a brand dedicated to children between the ages of 8 and 13 which has renewed its collaboration for 2020 with Ferrero, following the success of the 2018 Easter egg initiative with Kinder Gran Sorpresa.

Among the most successful operations of 2019 was the Focus Pico initiative, the Group’s brand aimed at children aged between 3 and 6, that brought to infant schools “The’ABC of the Sabbiarelli”, an educational project developed using sand painting techniques. The Sabbiarelli kit and the Focus Pico magazine reached some 350 classes across the country, and also included a fun competition that unleashed the kids’ imaginations.

On the occasion of the big international boat shows in September 2019, INTERNI, the Mondadori Group magazine of interiors and contemporary design, presents a special OnBOARD edition entirely dedicated to boats and yachts.

“Thanks to research, technological innovation and the evolution of boat-builders tastes, elements of residential living space are migrating to the world of yachting,” declared Gilda Bojardi, editor of INTERNI. “as a result, yachts are increasingly similar to floating villas, furnished with style and products taken from home design. And this before considering that some of the best known names from the architectural world and residential design have migrated on-board, and collaboration between boat-builders and Italian design brands have become evermore frequent.”

The INTERNI OnBOARD special looks at both the incredible history of Italian boat-building and the stories of the designers of their amazing yachts; their latest designs and the results achieved in terms of stylistic forms, comfort, material and technological solutions, as well, of course, as performance. Special attention will focus on on-board design: the use in yachts of super-light and innovative materials, domestically produced indoor and outdoor furnishings, automation options, chef kitchens, fully equipped gyms and office space  show the increasingly close link between nautical and residential design.

In September INTERNI recorded double-digit growth in advertising revenues compared with the same period of the previous year and confirmed its absolute leadership in the professional living segment.

INTERNI OnBoard will be available on newsstands along with the September issue of the magazine and will be distributed at Maison&Objet in Paris(6-10 September), the Cannes Yachting Festival (10-15 September), the Genoa Boat Show (19-24 September), the Monaco Yacht Show (25-28 September) and at selected showrooms of Italian design companies in New York, London and Miami.

Grazia, the leading 100% Italian fashion brand, is expanding its reach in Latin America. Thanks to a new licensing agreement signed between the Mondadori Group and Menta Comunicación, the publisher of the magazine in Mexico, from this month Grazia’s international network will have a new edition which will be distributed in Colombia, Perù and Panama.

The new monthly in spanish language, edited by Toni Salamanca, will offer readers in the three countries the unmistakeable mix of fashion, news and current affairs that has made the historic brand the most qualified point of reference for Made in Italy.

Grazia will now reach a total audience in Latin America of over 4 million readers in the 18 and 34 age range. Through the magazine, the web site and social media it will be a platform dedicated to luxury, fashion, beauty and lifestyle, able to respond to the needs and tastes of the public at all times.

Every month, the global multichannel system Grazia International Network, which operates in 23 countries, reaches an overall community of 15 million readers, with a monthly circulation of more than 10 million copies, and 35 million unique users and around 20 million followers on social media.

Grazia, the Mondadori Group magazine edited by Silvia Grilli presents Together – Made in Grazia the third collectors’ issue, available on newsstands and at selected bookshops from 17 September.

Following the first issue dedicated to great Italian talent and the second which explored the future, this new edition will examine issues such as: inclusion, the fight against prejudice and discrimination, safeguarding the planet, the battle against digital bullying and probes new ways of working “together” to build a better world and the necessity to get active to combat all forms of discrimination.

“If divisions prevent us from finding a better way, with this special publication we want to contribute to overcoming the barriers, advancing rights and their constant defence. Because rights are never definitive, but are always provisional if we do not continuously fight to safeguard them,” declared the editor of Grazia Silvia Grilli.

The most significant contributions to this issue are by: writer and winner of the Premio Strega Edoardo Albinati who describes the discovery of beauty in mental  distress, Marco Balzano winner of the Flaiano, Campiello, Bagutta prizes and the Prix Méditerranée who writes about the encounter of cultures that finally open up after a period of diffidence.

Also the writer Teresa Ciabatti interviews Renato Zero and does not refrain from singing of the utopia of a better world. Oscar-winner Jane Fonda reflects on the taboos in a society that excludes women because of their age while pop star Bebe Rexha makes peace with her body and recounts how only love and pride in ourselves can demolish discriminations against our bodies.

Another Oscar-winner, the director Oliver Stone, denounces the conformism of Hollywood, and in an intense interview with Pulitzer prize-winner Michael Cunningham, screenwriter Ivan Cotroneo looks at the fight against homophobia, which cannot exist without a fight against sexism, racism and anti-Semitism.

Extensive space is also given to fashion, with spectacular images in honour of an idea of beauty able to embrace also imperfections and articles inspired by nature and encounters between different cultures.

Together – Made in Grazia aims to probe the human soul, put itself in the shoes of others, and to embrace differences.

For Mediamond this third collection from Grazia once again confirms the great interest of the advertising market, marked by an excellent +23% increase in ad pages and a rise of +17% in ad revenues compared with the last issue published at the beginning of 2019.

This month Icon is launching a special edition dedicated to the world of cars and motorcycles: Icon Wheels, with interviews with protagonists, stories of success and the most iconic and desirable models. From supercars to SUVs: powerful, ecological or simply irresistible cars of fascination and distinction.

“With Wheels, the first special issue dedicated to the world of both four and two wheels, Icon begins what is set to be a series of brand extensions with the ambitious aim of vertically expanding and deepening its coverage of the male passions that remain the foundation of the magazine’s original promise,” explained Andrea Tenerani, editor of the Mondadori Group’s male lifestyle title. “The next stage on the journey begun by Icon in 2019».

Icon Wheels will be available on newsstands from 16 July with two different covers: the first featuring the Maserati Levante Trofeo V8, with its distinctive and captivating style, a symbol of Italian excellence, and the second featuring actor Ewan McGregor, a motorcycle enthusiast, and a veteran of two wheels, who talks about his passion for bikes.

Plus, exclusive interviews with some of the big names from the world of engines, such as Marquez, Dovizioso and Bautista, enriching the content of the magazine, along with a section dedicated to lifestyle, with the most exclusive bars and restaurants bar of the summer 2019, in both Italy and around the world.

The new Wheels will also be available on the web with a dedicated channel on iconmagazine.it, a complete digital guide to driving style.

Following the success of the June issue, which confirmed the Mondadori Group’s male lifestyle magazine as leader in the sector – with sales up by +19% compared with 2018 – Icon Wheels also recorded excellent results in terms of advertising, once again in marked contrast to the print media market and the up-market male segment.

Icon continues to grow also across social media, in particular on Instagram, with an increase in followers of more than 30% compared with the beginning of the year.