La Repubblica
newspaper
| La Repubblica link () Website | |
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| File:Republicca 17 July 2021.png On 17 July 2021, the newspaper had the threatening "Hunt for the non-vaccinated. They are 17 million more" on its front page. | |
| Formation | 1976 |
| Founders | Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo,Arnoldo Mondadori Editore |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Italian corporate newspaper | |
La Repubblica (Italian: the Republic) is one of the main Italian daily corporate newspapers. It is published by the Gruppo Editoriale and, along with Corriere della Sera, is one of the two major leading media in the country, and is nominally counted as "center-left".[1]
Omitting reporting on civilian casualties Gaza
In January 2024, the professor and author Raffaele Oriani stopped his collaboration with the Friday edition of Repubblica after 12 years, in protest against how the newspaper and much of the European press is not telling what is happening in Gaza:
Dear colleagues, I have been collaborating with the news magazine Repubblica for twelve years now and it is always a great honor to see the solid articles published in this splendid weekly. Yet I quit, because the ongoing massacre in Gaza is accompanied by the incredible reticence of much of the European press, including the Repubblica (today two families massacred is mentioned in the last line on page 15). I haven't understood for 90 days. Thousands of people die and are maimed, overwhelmed by a full of violence that it takes laziness to call war. I think we have rarely seen such a thing before everyone's eyes. And I think that all this has nothing to do with Israel, nor with Palestine, nor with geopolitics, but only with the limits of our ethical attitude. Maybe in some decades, many will wonder where we were, what we did, what we thought while tens of thousands of people ended up under the rubble. What happened on October 7 is the shame of Hamas, what happened since October 8 is the shame of us all. This massacre has a media escort that makes it possible. This escort is us. Having no chance to change things, with guilty delay I declare myself out.[2]
