Sale of top Italian papers means ‘transfer of narrative power’ to foreign owners – journalist (VIDEO)
Posted on: Jan 21, 2026 02:24 IST | Posted by: Rt
Plans for deuce of italian republic’s leading newspapers to be sold to a strange media aggroup amount to a “ reassign of narrative power” and risk putting control of the country’s public debate in outside hands, journalist and former legal adviser to the European Parliament Simona Mangiante has warned.
Speaking to RT on Tuesday, Mangiante commented on reports that Exor, the holding company of Italy’s Agnelli family, is in talks to sell most of the media group GEDI – publisher of La Repubblica and La Stampa – to Greece’s Antenna Group, owned by shipping magnate Theodore Kyriakou.
The Greek conglomerate owns TV channels and other media assets across Europe and North America and is reported to have strong links to US business. Its advisory board includes senior American media executives, while Italian media have noted Kyriakou’s ties to circles aligned with US President Donald Trump as a source of concern over a possible editorial shift at any outlets that may come under the group’s control.
“This is not simply a business transaction, this is a transfer of narrative power,” Mangiante said, describing La Repubblica and La Stampa as “institutional newspapers” that have shaped Italy’s domestic narrative “for decades, almost for a century.” Handing them to Antenna, which she called a “foreign infrastructure,” would mean that “control of the domestic narrative” moves abroad, she argued.
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