Claudia Di Pasquale chosen as the new presenter of Report after Giulia Presutti's step back

The director of Rai Insights Paolo Corsini has indicated Claudia Di Pasquale to support Daniele Piervincenzi in hosting Report. The decision - Rai informs - was taken following the resignation of Giulia Presutti. "I have taken note of Presutti's choice, which I understand on a human level. A young and valid journalist who has received the trust of the company which I wholeheartedly renew - says Corsini -. Di Pasquale is an internal colleague in the editorial team of the Report programme, with great experience. Best of luck to her and Daniele Piervincenzi and to the entire Report team for the challenge that awaits us".

The Report correspondents express "satisfaction with the choice of Claudia Di Pasquale as the new presenter of the program and of Bernardo Iovene and Giulio Valesini as chief authors". Report's correspondents say so. "Claudia Di Pasquale is one of the most authoritative journalists of the historic Report team - they continue -. Hired by Milena Gabanelli in 2011, she created some of the reports that wrote the history of the program. She was awarded the most important journalistic awards, including the Premiolino in 2019. For all of us Claudia Di Pasquale is the most worthy representative of the spirit and DNA of Report. We trust that together with Valesini and Iovene will be able to guarantee the usual autonomy and freedom to the team of journalists".

"I am very happy with Claudia's choice, because she is a great professional, rigorous, tough and independent. She would have been one of my favorite choices in a normal corporate context if Corsini had asked me." Thus the former host of Report, Sigfrido Ranucci, comments to ANSA on the choice of Claudia Di Pasquale to host the programme. "It's a good thing he didn't ask me, otherwise I imagine he wouldn't have accepted", comments the host.

"Absolutely yes." This is how the Rai Insight director Paolo Corsini responds to journalists who ask him if Davide Piervincenzi will remain as host of Report after Giulia Presutti's step back, on the sidelines of the presentation of Salvo Sottile's Ore 14. "Report - he explains - will be broadcast on November 8, this is the company's intention. The conductors are chosen by the director, they pay me for this" and Presutti's step back "is a personal choice, she is a resource and an excellent professional".

Di Majo-Di Pietro-Natale: 'Disastrous management on Report, extraordinary board of directors needed'

"The disastrous management of the Report affair continues to produce devastating effects on the image of Rai every day. Today the tense situation that has been weighing on the working group for weeks has produced another intolerable chapter: that of the public insults against Salvo Sottile, who for weeks had contributed heavily on his social media to fueling the controversy against Sigfrido Ranucci". This was stated by Rai councilors Roberto Natale, Alessandro Di Majo and Davide Di Pietro, requesting the urgent convocation of an extraordinary board of directors. The councilors define the words against Sottile as "unacceptable" "just as the too many offensive words and summary judgments on this or that professional path had been unacceptable in recent days". "Very serious damage is being done to the very legitimacy of the public service - they continue -. The top management - who bears the responsibility for having unleashed this storm without taking its developments into account - at least exercises the ability to call all the subjects involved to dignified behaviour, if necessary to dignified silence, and asserts with everyone the duty to respect the mutual loyalty and correctness that keep a company afloat". "We therefore ask for the urgent convening of an extraordinary board of directors - they announce -, to have detailed information on the entire matter and also regarding the choices being made to safeguard Report, which is a fundamental asset of Rai's offer".