Since 15 December 2015 it is chaired by Giuseppe Giulietti, replacing Santo Della Volpe after his death.
[2] The first journalists' union in Italy was the Associazione della Stampa Periodica Italiana, founded in Rome on 16 December 1877 and first chaired by Francesco De Sanctis.
The Press Federation was founded in 1908[3] by few regional associations of journalists, to unite the professional category and make it independent from political and economic powers.
It was dissolved and replaced forcibly in 1925 by the Fascist Union of Journalists (Sindacato fascista dei giornalisti), created the year before.
Its main aims are to be a guardian of press freedom, guarantee pluralism in the media, and protect the rights of journalists, also by promoting the professional value of the category.