Name: Italy’s RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression
Uploaded: 2024-05-06T10:34:47-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni. The 24-hour RAI strike is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to […]

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Italy’s RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression

ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni. The 24-hour RAI strike is the latest protest by Italian journalists against what they say are threats to […]

Italian journalist union calls for strike at public broadcaster Rai

The journalists’ union USIGrai has called for a 24-hour strike at Italian public broadcaster Rai on May 6 and 7, mainly to protest against interference by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. They accused Meloni of wanting to turn the broadcaster into a “mouthpiece of the government.” The background to this is the […]