ABSTRACT
The chapter examines the lack of accountability and transparency as one of the causes of the low level of freedom of the press assigned to Italy by independent organizations. The difficulties Italian journalism face to be accountable do not depend on the lack of MAIs but on the excessive number of regulations that Italian journalism has adopted without effective sanctions. The result is that in Italy even the most simple quarrels, that could be solved by a system of self-regulation, tend to be regulated by law. Online journalism seems instead to have found a spectrum of practices that do make Italian journalism more accountable.
