All the turmoil in the editorial office (split) of the Sole 24 Ore

18 November 20203 years ago babelfish

Tensions in the Sole 24 Ore. The moves of the cdr against the director, the response of Tamburini, the assembly on the approval of the management and the appeal of a substantial part of the editorial staff that criticizes the cdr and asks to suspend the vote

A split in the editorial office of Il Sole 24 Ore with a part of the editorial body that disputes the critical cdr towards the director Fabio Tamburini.

Here are all the latest news.

An editorial assembly will be held in the next few hours at the daily controlled by Confindustria.

On the agenda is the "approval" towards the director Fabio Tamburini.

But what happened?

To a press release dated 15 November (under the full text) in which the cdr criticized the director for hosting a four-page special entitled "The courage of the future", which contains five articles signed by high-ranking members of Confindustria, the director Tamburini replied tranchant: “Anyone who knows me knows that the signatories of the statement should feel some shame”.

The CDR then returned to the attack – as the daily Domani directed by Stefano Feltri reconstructs today – because the published text was not the complete one and the assembly of journalists considered Tamburini's response unacceptable, asking that the statement be republished in full.

At this point, the president of the company, Edoardo Garrone, and the managing director, Giuseppe Cerbone, intervened. The response of the leaders of the group that publishes Il Sole 24 Ore not only expressed solidarity with the director – underlines the Tomorrow – but also accused the representatives of the journalists of "going beyond the normal trade union dialectic".

Now a meeting of journalists will be held shortly, which would aim to discourage the director, even if formally voting is on "approval".

But a part of the editorial staff – with mail-appeal also signed by sector managers and editors such as Laura Di Pillo (central office), Alberto Grassani (Enterprises) and Marco Ferrando (Finance) as well as long-time journalists at the Sun such as Laura Serafini and Stefano Elli – asked "to suspend the vote and, to be correct, call an assembly to establish the modalities". "As has already been reported in a previous email, the chosen mechanism does not guarantee the freedom and secrecy of the vote and not even the certainty of the results", write the signatories.

(article updated at 10.30)

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CDR PRESS RELEASE OF 15 NOVEMBER

Il Sole 24 Ore today hosts a four-page special entitled "The courage of the future", which contains five articles by senior Confindustria representatives.
This is the second of two episodes (the first is last Sunday), with a practically identical structure, announced with a speech by the president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi in the newspaper of November 5. In total, they make eight pages and eleven articles signed by our publisher in a matter of days.

It is a record for us, but not an isolated phenomenon in recent weeks, because from the beginning of the month to today the newspaper has hosted 25 interviews and speeches by senior Confindustria representatives. In recent days we have expressed to the director all our opposition to an initiative of this type and, more generally, to what we consider a dangerous drift. The reasons are of an organizational nature, because the choice of outsourcing a significant part of the newspaper to external interventions leaves us more than perplexed, moreover excluding journalists from its realization.

But the most relevant reason is of merit. We have always been opposed to the choice of reducing the newspaper to a house organ, on which the contents chosen by our publisher are inserted in immense quantities, without filter and without mediation by journalists. We are well aware that we have a cumbersome publisher, which is not easy to deal with. Precisely for this reason we believe that the autonomy of the editorial staff and the work of each of us must first be rigorously affirmed, then meticulously defended. From our point of view, then, initiatives such as today's only risk increasing the disenchantment of readers, rightly not interested in reading a Confindustria bulletin, and devaluing our newspaper, whose authority is for us (but so it should be also for the publisher) the most important patrimony to defend.We will continue to monitor what will happen in the future, hoping that the limits of decency will no longer be exceeded.

The cdr

Editor's response : Those who know me know that the signatories of the statement should feel some shame ( fta )

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Given that in the Assembly the voting methods for the motion on the "approval" (not distrust) of the director were not voted, but a quick communication was given en passant at the end of the assembly by Giovanni Negri, when it was about to vote the motion on the communiqué, and given the incredible speed with which you proceeded, without giving time to make objections, however, adopting a method that in a previous meeting had already been excluded (the vote at Lombarda), we are here at last moment to ask you to suspend the vote and, to be correct, call an assembly to establish the modalities. As has already been reported in a previous email, the chosen mechanism does not guarantee the freedom and secrecy of the vote and not even the certainty of the results. Let's see why. The president of the Lombarda is not a person held to secrecy by virtue of this role. So everything would be left to his good heart: this is not the case for an official vote. Since, due to the secrecy of the vote, it will not be possible to access the ballots, in reality, even with all the trust in the person identified as deputy to the count, there will be no certainty of the outcome.

The procedure is therefore completely illegitimate because the characteristics of the voting mechanisms do not guarantee either the certainty of the results or the secrecy. We also collectively reiterate that the above considerations do not involve any personal assessment of the president of Lombarda.

For the above reasons, we will not participate in the vote to which we do not recognize any validity and with respect to the results of which we reserve the right to appeal at any venue.

Marigia Mangano

Paola Dezza

Luisanna Benfatto

Alberto Grassani

Christian Martino

Vitaliano D'Angerio

Alberto Annicchiarico

Isabella Della Valle

Laura La Posta

Lucilla Incorvati

Laura Galvagni

Federica Micardi

Marzia Redaelli

Marco Ferrando

Stefano Biolchini

Francesca Cerati

Maria Carla De Cesari

Antonio Criscione

Laura Serafini

Vito Lops

Stefano Elli

Simone Filippetti

Laura Di Pillo

Gianfranco Ursino

Giulia Crivelli

Rita Fatiguso

Maria Luisa Colledani

Carlo Festa

Nino Amadore

Sissi Bellomo

Marco Carminati

Roberto Da Rin

Enrico Bronze

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/redazione-spaccata-al-sole-24-ore-tutti-i-subbugli/ on Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:26:24 +0000.