Journalists sit in in front of Rai headquarters with Ranucci: "Against cuts and in defense of precarious workers"

They denounce cuts to in-depth programs in the new Rai schedule . A protest in Viale Marconi in Naples promoted by precarious journalists and political exponents in conjunction with the presentation of the Rai 2025-2026 offer in the Fuorigrotta production center.

Also present at the demonstration “Il palinsesto siamo noi” was Sigfrido Ranucci , host of Report , who denounced the cutting of four episodes in the next season of the Raitre investigative program. Also present was Carlo Verna , a historic face of Rai and former president of the Order of Journalists, the host of Petrolio Duilio Giammaria and politicians such as Elisabetta Piccolotti of Avs, Stefano Graziano of the Pd and the former mayor of Naples and former prosecutor Luigi de Magistris . Slc-Cgil and Articolo 21 Campania also joined the protest.

"I've always said that for me Rai is my home, but I have to say that lately I feel less and less at home – said Sigfrido Ranucci, journalist and host of Report – I've received offers from various places but I've never accepted them because I think that Report can only be done at Rai, in a place where despite everything I've always felt free to work. I'll stay at Rai, if they don't fire me". Ranucci recalled that he had "the fortune of working with many directors, Di Bella, Di Mare, Vianello , and all of them had their balls broken by politicians, but no one ever accepted a downsizing of Report , because they considered it a value and not a price. I have heard of cuts for optimization, but it makes me laugh. They guarantee presenters who are close or dear to politics and cut the Rai program in first place for credibility. It is a bad sign towards meritocracy, because you are telling the Report team and any other team that you can do the best possible result in the most virtuous way, but I cut you because I have to guarantee these people".

The host of Petrolio , Duilio Giammaria, wanted to participate "to support his colleagues, but I think it's an initiative that brings together a bit of everything. The desire for identity that these young journalists express when they say 'don't disperse us in regional newsrooms'. I think it's also written in the programming guidelines: Rai must recover its identity, people's stories. This is a company that must remember both young people and the people who have contributed in some way to creating this identity and this is something that must be maintained". For the host of Presadiretta , Riccardo Iacona, "the weight of the cuts is represented by the fewer spaces in prime time. I don't know how many evenings they will cut from Presadiretta for economic reasons. I can't oppose it, I'm not the one who decides how to manage this company, but even if they take away two evenings, they are two fewer spaces in prime time that weigh from a journalistic point of view".

Also at the picket line was Elisabetta Piccolotti, deputy of Avs "to protest against the new schedules because they lack pluralism. Entire programs of political debate have been closed, investigative programs are being reduced, there is a plan to control Rai by the government that denies the citizens' right to be informed. This is what public service is for and not to make propaganda for the government of the day". "We are not going to accept this fair of hypocrisy," added the M5S group leader in Rai Oversight, Dario Carotenuto . "While inside the new schedules are being enthusiastically presented, outside there are those who remember what public service should really be: free, independent information, based on merit and quality. Instead, we are witnessing the paradox of a CEO who says he has increased the hours of in-depth reporting, but he does so precisely while episodes and resources are being cut from the programs that have made investigation their trademark. At Report , for example, they say that nothing has been taken away, yet the programming speaks clearly: four episodes less than last year. Someone is lying, and it's not us."

For de Magistris "it is very significant to be here to defend public service, to defend precarious journalists under attack, to defend those courageous, autonomous and independent journalists. It is not a battle of left or right, it is a battle of democracy".