Overview
- About thirty newsroom representatives held a sit-in outside Rome’s Ex Mattatoio during the inauguration of la Repubblica’s 50th‑anniversary exhibition.
- Protesters displayed banners, blew whistles, and criticized John Elkann’s stewardship and the reported plan to sell Gedi to Theodore Kyriakou’s Antenna Group.
- The journalists’ flyer demanded employment guarantees, transparency over the sale process, and protection of the paper’s cultural and editorial identity.
- The journalists’ union said Elkann’s presence at the event was a “shameful slap,” adding staff were kept outside the opening.
- Undersecretary Alberto Barachini told Parliament the government is monitoring negotiations, cited labor protections in the journalists’ contract, and said Antenna has preliminarily indicated an intention to acquire the entire Gedi group; he also relayed Kyriakou’s comment that he is not arriving to fire people.