“Following the investigations, I would have expected a simple statement from the former presenter of Report: ‘Lavitola is no longer my friend and I am bringing a civil action’,” says the editor-in-chief of the Gazzetta del Sud, who spent many years at RAI and headed up TGR and TG3.

To demonstrate that the new Rai appointments are not on a par with Report, the lawyers have pieced together a career without a single misstep. There is no mention of the Lavitola case, only circumlocutions and bureaucratic jargon.

Sigfrido denies having visited his friend Valter a few days after the attack, but the evidence gathered by the investigators contradicts his account

As the presenter leaves the studio in a melodramatic video, it is time to recall anonymous letters regarding harassment, threats and RAI audits that were shelved because there was no one to oversee them

At the Green Alliance and Left party rally, ‘the alternative’ gathers, though it remains without a programme or a leader. From the crowd, people shout: ‘Get a move on!’, in thick Roman dialect. Surprise: the Greens like Silvia Salis

He had already been arrested a month late. Now, following his confession, there is no need to keep him in prison for a single day longer

“Gomes warned me that he would do things his own way; I had given him carte blanche, specifying that he must not harm anyone.” His friendship with the journalist? “I hoped he could also restore my reputation – a chance for me to redeem myself in society.” What did the fixer tell the judges at the review hearing?

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.