Dear friends,
2026 for We the Italians begins with a big novelty: we’re moving from 3 to 12 podcasts! Starting this January, in addition to the weekly podcasts Italy in English and L’Italia in America, and the monthly We the ItaliaNews: The Interviews, we’re adding a podcast featuring the magazine’s content (We the ItaliaNews: The Magazine), also monthly, and 8 thematic podcasts that will rotate weekly, one per week alongside the others: Economy and Laws; Education, Art and Culture; Energy and Sustainability; Healthcare; Made in Italy; Science and Innovation; Tourism and Nature; Traditions, Lifestyle and Sport.
This is a significant editorial effort, accompanied by a change in how this kind of content is accessed. Starting this January, you’ll be able to listen to and watch free 30-second previews of podcast episodes, both audio and visual. To listen to the full 15-minute audio episode and watch the 7-minute visual one, we ask you to subscribe to We the Italians, here.
We need the support of our loyal readers and listeners, to whom we propose this deal. The entire audio and visual episodes are published directly on our Subscribers Facebook Group and includes: a) 10 articles per week; b) 2 weekly 15’ audio and 7’ visual podcasts (Italy in English and L’Italia in America); c) 3 monthly 15’ audio and 7’ visual podcasts (The Interviews, The Magazine, and a monthly summary of L’Italia in America); d) every week, in rotation, a new 15’ audio and 7’ visual episode of one of the eight new thematic podcasts.
For all this content, we ask €4.99 per month, more or less the cost of a coffee. Don’t tell me that your hunger and thirst for Italy aren’t worth even €5 a month, because I don’t believe it. For each new thematic podcast, you can watch and listen to three free episodes related to 2025 to get an idea of what it’s about: here is the page of the podcast on our website, it’s a good place to start. Please remember, for ten years we’ve been giving you our contributions for free, now totaling almost 100,000; now we’re counting on you to continue doing so in an ever better way, at the cost of a coffee a month. Dont0 disappoint us, please subscribe here.
2026 also began with the usual, wonderful mentoring experience at the Italian American Future Leaders program, now in its fourth edition. More than 330 young Italian Americans, enthusiastic and committed, gathered in Fort Lauderdale, and I had the honor of speaking with them, helping them, listening to them. The future of the Italian American community is in good hands!
There’s a short video that went viral in which I try to explain to the IAFL fellows why they must not allow anyone to tell them they are not Italian: I’ve been told it was very much appreciated by many, which made me happy. You can find it here.
As part of the IAFL, I also had the pleasure of recording an episode of the Italian American Podcast, which will air soon, in which we announce the episodes of the Italian-language spin-off together with four other Italian journalist friends who will help me try to explain Italian America to Italians living in Italy, who often show that they don’t know the beauty of the Italian American world, and how much we who live in Italy can and must learn from it.
We’ve added two more communication channels to the previous ones: starting in January we’re also on Substack and if you like you can also reach us on our WhatsApp channel here.
Our family of Ambassadors is growing, and starting this month it can count on three new members, one territorial and two thematic. I’m happy to welcome them!
Rob Dolci is our new Ambassador in Maine. Rob has a long career as both an executive and entrepreneur in the fields of automation, IoT, and more recently AI in industrial and energy sectors. In the USA since 2010, he and his family lived in Maine for 10 years and are now in Boston, but the connection to the Pine State is as strong as ever. Rob helps Italian companies with the Benefit Corp www.42n.us together with 30 Italian professionals in America. Rob also maintains two columns on the Italian Zafferano.News, and teaches in the PhD School of Politecnico di Torino.
Matteo Cerri is our brand new Ambassador for Relocation to Italy. Matteo is an entrepreneur and publisher with 30 years of experience connecting the Italian diaspora, global mobility, and the revitalization of small Italian towns. He has published both in Italian and English. Editor-in-Chief of Nomag, ITSJournal and Smart Working Magazine, he also co-founded ITS Italy, delivering more than 140 regeneration projects in over 20 Italian villages. Matteo is the author of the column My Life in Italy on We the Italians’ magazine, spotlighting the stories of Italian Americans who invest in Italy and choose to move there.
Riccardo Buttarelli is our new Ambassador for Healthcare. Riccardo is a public health professional with expertise in European health policy, governance, and strategic communication. He currently collaborates with the Italian Ministry of Health within ProMIS, supporting EU partnerships and managing Horizon Europe and national health initiatives. He also works with the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) on EU-related research grants, and has collaborated with the European Medicines Agency in the Research and Innovation Unit. He is currently Vice President of Neuro Fibromatosis Patients United (NFPU), representing patient advocacy at the European level and contributing to patient-centered and sustainable health policies.
Last but not least, the final surprise. This is a year with several round-number anniversaries, and we’re working on that too. One of the first things we’re doing is a logo change, just for this year: we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America and the 80th anniversary of the Italian Republic.
And it doesn’t stop here! That’s why we ask you to subscribe to We the Italians.
It’s all for now. Please stay safe and take care, and enjoy our magazine and our contents on our website. Stay safe and take care: the future’s so bright, we gotta wear tricolor shades! A big Italian hug from Rome.
