Cdr's statement

Repubblica's journalism is and must absolutely remain impervious to any attempt at interference by external interests of any origin and by advertising investors. Reading the evidentiary seizure decree ordered by the Naples Prosecutor's Office as part of the investigation into the Multiversity affair in which Repubblica is also involved - like many other newspapers and information sites - does not affect the work of its journalists in the slightest. Indeed, they were the first and with absolute completeness to describe what was emerging from the investigators' work on a company that is among the advertisers of our advertising agency. The criminal investigation will naturally take its course but we firmly condemn any exchange that may have taken place between company top management, the advertising agency and the journalistic management at the time of the disputed events that could even have been imagined to influence the narrative of the investigation.

The journalistic management is responsible for guaranteeing the independence and autonomy of journalistic work, but company top management and any other figure who interfaces with the world of economics as well as with that of politics must show themselves and prove to be absolutely refractory to the continuous attempts to condition information. A voice, like that of Repubblica, which wants to maintain authority and credibility in an information landscape where the attempt to mix roles is the order of the day and where events increasingly organized by publishing companies risk transforming from opportunities for discussion to instruments of interference of commercial relations in journalistic activity, can only demand absolute respect for professional ethics from all the actors who contribute to the formation of the product that every day, with love, dedication and professionalism, we propose to our readers.