FastItalian Learning
Italian Journalistic Language — Linguaggio Giornalistico·Authentic News Paragraph Analysis II: Crime and Justice
💡

Rule reminder

Italian crime and justice reporting uses: passive voice to foreground victims/outcomes, the hearsay conditional for unproven allegations, legal vocabulary (il pm = pubblico ministero/prosecutor, la procura = prosecutor's office, il gip = giudice per le indagini preliminari/examining magistrate, rinviato a giudizio = committed to trial, assolto = acquitted, condannato = convicted), and careful distinction between investigated and proven.

Authentic News Paragraph Analysis II: Crime and Justice1 / 10

'Maxioperazione della Guardia di Finanza all'alba di ieri' — this is written as a headline fragment. What has been omitted?

More in this section

📝 Take the Section 2 Mini-Exam← Back to Italian Journalistic Language — Linguaggio Giornalistico