Elizabeth Djinis
Freelance Rome Reporter at Freelance
Rome-based reporter. Writing in @teenvogue @smithsonianmag @nytimes @natgeo @glamourmag @wantedinrome + more. Say 👋: [email protected].
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1 week ago |
sarasotamagazine.com | Elizabeth Djinis
I should have known that the cardinals had made their decision when I heard the loud clanging of the bells and saw a pair of young boys sprinting down the street. But it was Rome, it was early Thursday evening, the air was full of crisp May hopes and anticipation. I am, after all, an American journalist in Rome, so bells and boys running didn’t seem so abnormal. It was only when a friend from Sarasota texted me—“Do you see the white smoke?”—that I realized that these had actually been signs.
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1 week ago |
italysegreta.com | Elizabeth Djinis
it reading time 3 min "Ma è un americano!" After the death of the beloved-by-many Pope Francis on Easter Monday, the world awaited the name of the next Pope with something between agony and excitement. In total, 133 cardinals descended on the city of Rome and closed themselves in for a two-day voting process that culminated in Thursday evening’s white smoke. But when Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced the next Pope, that is, the Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo...
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sarasotamagazine.com | Elizabeth Djinis
As a child, Chloe Canterbury filled sketchbooks with clothing designs and convinced her sisters to star in fashion shows, so opening a boutique one day didn’t seem like a far-off dream. After studying fashion merchandising and moving to Sarasota in 2016, the Ohio native decided to start Surge Style Boutique as an online store before opening a physical outpost downtown in December 2020.
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2 weeks ago |
italysegreta.com | Elizabeth Djinis
Thirty-seven-year-old Alessandro Cannavacciuolo grew up in the so-called Terra dei Fuochi, a wide swath of land between Naples and Caserta that has been home for decades to the illegal dumping of toxic waste and the burning of said waste. The environment is now so polluted that it has sickened residents and harmed much of the area’s agricultural potential. The area is home to a population of around 2.9 million, and Cannavacciuolo is just one of many who has lived this experience personally.
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2 weeks ago |
italysegreta.com | Elizabeth Djinis
If there was any doubt in our mind from the masses crowding seemingly every piazza in every major Italian city, the data tells us the same story: tourism is back. In 2024, roughly 1.4 billion tourists traveled internationally, essentially returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to UN Tourism. That also came with real money behind it—tourist spending hit a total of $1.6 trillion last year.
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You might expect many things from organized crime in Italy, but it's probably not destroying the environment. But that's exactly why the word "ecomafia" was coined in the 1990s. The situation has only gotten more grave since that time. https://t.co/R3TpsciKVa
Habemus papam...and the first thing I heard was, "ma è un americano?" https://t.co/mH79uzXvcx
RT @VaticanNews: White smoke! The 133 Cardinal electors gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected the new Pope. He will appear…