A glaring error in the transcript of a wiretap offers insight into the reflexes of slapdash investigative journalism. A short but intense story centred on the Ranucci case and Report.

The programme’s long-standing correspondent will be working alongside Daniele Piervincenzi following Giulia Presutti’s withdrawal. She was greeted with applause and hugs upon her arrival at the newsroom. Iovene and Valesini have accepted the role of chief writers, which they had previously turned down.

The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated Lavitola as the instigator of the attack but then released him, allowing him 37 days to speak to anyone, including Ranucci, thereby compromising the evidence. Now the prosecutors have discovered that Lavitola has deleted many of the chats he exchanged with Ranucci, but to recover them, they have not seized the former Report presenter’s mobile phone.

The programme was entrusted to the De Pasquale-Piervicenzi duo, following a long list of refusals due to ‘fear’ of Sigfrido and the insults directed at Flavio Sottile and Giampaolo Rossi.

In an email to the editor of Rai’s Approfondimento programme, Corsini, the journalist explains: “A programme so much loved cannot get bogged down in such petty discussions and exchanges.”

“Perché io so’ io...”. The double standard of the former director of the RAI programme regarding Presutti, Piervincenzi, Lavitola and Gomes

According to Domani, the journalist is the CEO of a company that has received contracts from the CNEL. His other ‘offence’ is having played alongside the editor of Rai’s Approfondimento programme in the Primavera rugby team. However, if that constitutes friendship, then so too does the friendship between Corsini’s son and Giulio Valesini’s son.

In-house journalists have declared a “state of unrest” and reserve the right “to take further action in the struggle for democracy”. It has been a turbulent weekend for the programme’s team, while the presenter has not ruled out a future in politics.