Sigfrido Ranucci has officially left Report. Rai has announced that "starting next season, Report will be hosted by Giulia Presutti and Daniele Piervincenzi , both winners of the Rai competition for professional journalists. This choice marks a new phase for one of the most important programs in the public service's in-depth reporting offering, with two journalists selected as winners of the Rai competition to host the show, reflecting their professionalism and experience in the field."
According to reports, the three options that Rai has submitted to Ranucci for leaving the hosting of Report are a position at Rainews, or at Tg3, or a correspondent's office.
Reactions to the note were immediate.
"This isn't a farewell. I won't be hosting Report, but I will be waging the most important battle of my life for press freedom . I'll do it for my children and yours. I refuse to leave future generations this monstrous world, governed by monstrous and cowardly people who cannot tolerate free journalism and independent magistrates," Ranucci wrote in a Facebook post. "In my place," the journalist added, "two people have been chosen who are demeaning the professionalism that has shaped the history of Report and public service for 30 years."
"RAI's decision condemns the victim of an attack, Report, and the independence of public information. Sigfrido Ranucci, for now, will not host Report but will lead the most important battle to defend the freedom of investigative journalism, in every forum," said the journalist's lawyer , Roberto De Vita.
"The decision made by RAI is completely unacceptable to us. It is unacceptable both in terms of its methodology, since the company has refused any dialogue with the team in recent weeks, informing us of its choice through agencies, and in terms of its substance, since the figures chosen are in no way representative of the history and values of Report," the program's correspondents wrote in a statement regarding the assignment of the program's hosting duties to Giulia Presutti and Daniele Piervincenzi, announcing their intention to resign en masse.
(Unioneonline)
