{"id":341312,"date":"2026-08-29T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italien.news\/uncategorized\/report-ranucci-abgesetzt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T09:48:28","slug":"report-ranucci-removed-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/politik\/report-ranucci-abgesetzt\/","title":{"rendered":"Rai Removes Ranucci as Host of \"Report\""},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome \u2013 The public broadcaster Rai has removed Sigfrido Ranucci as host of the investigative news program \u201eReport.\u201c The network handed the program over to two younger journalists, Giulia Presutti and Daniele Piervincenzi, and in return offered Ranucci three other positions within the company. The longtime host immediately rejected the decision.<\/p>\n

Presutti and Piervincenzi were selected through an internal screening process. Presutti has been working for \u201eReport\u201c for years and is considered an expert in investigative reporting on topics of public interest. Piervincenzi became known, among other things, for his appearances on the shows \u201eNemo\u201c and \u201ePopolo Sovrano\u201c; in 2017, while conducting an investigation in Ostia, a member of the Spada clan headbutted him on camera. The Rai 3 program has shaped investigative journalism on Italian television since the days of Milena Gabanelli; Ranucci has hosted it since 2016.<\/p>\n

Ranucci calls it a \u201emediocre\u201c election<\/h2>\n

Ranucci called the casting \u201emediocre\u201c and stated that it sealed the fate of \u201eReport.\u201c He said two people had been chosen whose professional competence paled in comparison to that of those who had carried the program for years. He rejected the three alternatives offered to him\u2014a specially created deputy director position at the news magazine Tg3, a similar position at the news channel Rainews, and a post as a foreign correspondent\u2014as a demotion. The show\u2019s editorial staff described the decision as \u201ecompletely unacceptable\u201c and threatened to leave the program en masse. Program Director Paolo Corsini, however, defended the restructuring.<\/p>\n

The personnel decision had been in the works for days. Regarding the Crucial moments behind the scenes at Rai<\/a> There had been a lot of speculation recently.<\/p>\n

Opposition suspects political interference<\/h2>\n

The opposition leveled sharp criticism. The Five Star Movement referred to it as an \u201eEditto Meloni,\u201c meaning an authoritarian encroachment on press freedom\u2014an allusion to the \u201eeditto bulgaro,\u201c which Silvio Berlusconi had used in 2002 to force unwelcome journalists off the air. Representatives of the Democratic Party accused the network\u2019s leadership of a \u201eperfect crime\u201c and coined the term \u201eTelemeloni.\u201c.<\/p>\n

The debate comes amid a tense situation. In October 2025, an explosive device detonated near Ranucci\u2019s home south of Rome, targeting his cars; his daughter narrowly escaped the attack by mere minutes. Meanwhile, the mediator Valter Lavitola has confessed to having ordered the attack. Against this backdrop, media associations are following the dismissal with particular attention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Die Rai \u00fcbertr\u00e4gt die Investigativsendung \u201eReport“ an Giulia Presutti und Daniele Piervincenzi und bietet dem abgel\u00f6sten Sigfrido Ranucci drei andere Rollen an.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inwp_podcast_mp3":"","inwp_podcast_apple":"","inwp_podcast_spotify":"","inwp_podcast_youtube":"","inw_restaurant_url":"","inw_restaurant_lat":"","inw_restaurant_lng":"","in_event_type":"","in_event_featured":"","in_event_teaser":"","in_event_name":"","in_event_address":"","in_event_status":"","in_event_turnus":"","inw_hotel_email":"","inw_hotel_type":"","inw_hotel_name":"","inw_hotel_street":"","inw_hotel_zip":"","inw_hotel_city":"","inw_hotel_region":"","inw_hotel_country":"","inw_hotel_phone":"","inw_hotel_url":"","inw_hotel_lat":"","inw_hotel_lng":"","inw_hotel_pricerange":"","inw_hotel_stars":"","inw_hotel_amenities":"","in_event_start":"","in_event_end":"","in_event_time":"","in_event_time_end":"","in_event_location":"","in_event_city":"","in_event_region":"","in_event_price":"","in_event_organizer":"","in_event_url":"","in_event_sort":"","in_event_sort_end":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","subtitle":"Die neuen Moderatoren Giulia Presutti und Daniele Piervincenzi \u00fcbernehmen das Format ab der kommenden Staffel. Ranucci lehnte die drei angebotenen Ersatzposten als Herabstufung ab.","jnews_video_option_group":[[]],"override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"topbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"250","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"4","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[835],"tags":[7428,21306,21304,4413,4723,21910,9094],"class_list":["post-341312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politik","tag-italien-news","tag-journalismus-italien","tag-medien-italien","tag-pressefreiheit","tag-rai","tag-report","tag-sigfrido-ranucci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/italien.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}