Report returns on Rai3 with Di Pasquale and Piervincenzi at the helm

A double-hosted season opens

Report, the investigative program on Rai3, returned on Sunday 8 November with Claudia Di Pasquale and Daniele Piervincenzi at the desk, replacing Sigfrido Ranucci. The broadcast opened from Studio 2 on Via Teulada, the program's longtime studio, and the hosts said Report remains on Rai and in public service. Di Pasquale said the team is the same group that formed under Milena Gabanelli and then under Ranucci, and that the program's brand rests on its investigations. She noted that the program had just entered its thirtieth year. Piervincenzi said the main change is that two hosts now front the program and introduce the work of its correspondents. The first item of the night was the report 'Un mare di plastica'.

Answering the summer's pressure

Di Pasquale referred to the events of the summer, saying that everything had been written and said about them.

“Perhaps someone hoped that Report would be cancelled along with its thirty-year history and its autonomy.”

She added that the team kept working despite what she called every kind of pressure and manipulation. She said the period had been painful on a human level but not on a professional one, and that the editorial line remains that of a free, independent and rigorous Report. The opening referred to Ranucci only as part of the program's history, with no personal farewell. Di Pasquale framed the continuity of the team as the answer to the controversy.

Stories previewed for the season

The hosts announced a story on the cover-up attributed to Valter Lavitola and another on the Cantiere Navale Vittoria shipyard in Adria, in the Veneto. According to ANSA, the hosts described a mix of secret services, businesspeople, politicians and men close to criminal clans, a thread running from the Veneto through Campania and abroad. For months, that thread was among the leads pursued by Rome prosecutors in the search for the attackers of Ranucci. The same story reaches as far as a lavish castle on the Black Sea that many consider an undeclared residence of Vladimir Putin. Di Pasquale promised twists in which politics, secret services and organized crime would take turns on the stage.

“Being two now to host and to launch the wonderful work of our correspondents.”

What comes next

Piervincenzi named Bernardo Iovene and Giulio Valesini as the two long-standing program authors coordinating the correspondents' reports. The hosts also said that, as every autumn, the new season could begin, a line that Rai news carried in its own coverage. The opening was broadcast from Via Teulada, and the first report of the evening was 'Un mare di plastica'. The hosts presented the new arrangement as a change in presenters only, with the team and the editorial line unchanged.