Journalists working for one among Italy’s main dailies, La Repubblica, went on strike on Friday over the potential sale of their newspaper to a Greek firm.
The leftist newspaper belongs to the Gedi publishing home together with the centrist La Stampa, the web site HuffPost Italia and Radio Deejay.
La Stampa journalists, who went on strike on Thursday, stated in an announcement that Gedi’s proprietor, Italian billionaire John Elkann, was in superior talks to promote Gedi to Antenna, a media group arrange by late Greek magnate Minos Kyriakou.
“We are prepared for a season of robust struggles to defend our staff’ rights and the id of our newspaper in opposition to the sale of our group to a overseas firm with no expertise in an already complicated Italian media panorama,” La Repubblica’s journalists stated in an announcement.
Opposition chief Elly Schlein, head of the centre-left Democratic Party, stated she was “extraordinarily frightened by the chance of a weakening or dismantling of a elementary bastion of democracy”.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right authorities held talks with employees and administration representatives on Friday however has up to now not intervened within the dispute.
