Tiscali Notizie's last day of publication : the newspaper and its editorial staff, which employed 12 journalists, are closing. "This is happening today, just before May 1st," reads a statement signed by Simonetta Selloni, secretary of the Sardinian Press Association , "a day when we celebrate Labor Day, while we learn that Italy has fallen to 56th place in the 2026 press freedom rankings compiled by Reporters Without Borders. These things all seem very distant from each other, but they are not. Because Tiscali is not just a "Sardinian thing," far from it. Tiscali was a publishing miracle born 26 years ago, in Cagliari, when online news was a dream for visionaries, and the implementation of the journalistic contract was "mission impossible." A pool of young journalists who trained and became journalists by taking on a challenge, first and foremost, with themselves , and then with a system that was still unfamiliar with information other than that of traditional channels—print, television, and radio. Millions of readers: for those who love numbers, Tiscali reached a peak of 5 million users, and until recently the news portal was among the 10 most read in Italy.
Today, inexplicable corporate decisions are silencing this immense heritage ," Selloni continues. "Of professionalism, of news, of work. These logics are inexplicable, except from a short-sighted marketing perspective, which fails to properly consider a work on which, among other things, the company has built its solid online reputation. Journalists are superfluous, and so is information. And with them, the archive of news, specials, podcasts—when that term wasn't even used yet—and in-depth articles, built over a quarter of a century, risks disappearing. Twelve jobs are being eliminated, a voice in information is being erased. The Sardinian Press Association and the National Press Federation stood by our colleagues to prevent this outcome. Colleagues who, as they grew to become a reality, provided information, but also education. And also the history, in this country, of online information. It's painful that this is ending. The Press Association, the statement concludes, will continue to keep a beacon lit, hoping that politicians, and indeed all citizens, will understand how this closure also restricts their access to information and awareness. Their freedom.
(Unioneonline)
