Before Christmas, the Vatican plans to launch its new multimedia communications website, although the Vatican Radio and Vatican Television Centre sites will still be accessible as archives.
The public announcement came the day after Monsignor Vigano presented the site to Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals and explained to the council the progress made in unifying the various Vatican media.
The Secretariat for Communication’s editorial board will determine how various events and issues are presented and covered.
According to Vigano, the multimedia centre will include around 350 employees drawn from the 40 language programmes of the former Vatican Radio and from the nine institutions, including the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Vatican television production centre, and Vatican printing press.
The multimedia centre will begin its work with 70 people working in six languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. They will focus on four areas: the pope, the Vatican, the church and the world.
