La Repubblica, La Stampa, Massimo Giannini and ingratitude
Career and curiosities about Massimo Giannini, who after managing the newspaper La Stampa returns to Repubblica as a columnist. But Giannini didn't start out in the editorial galaxy of Repubblica…
Massimo Giannini returns as a columnist to the newspaper La Repubblica , after the end of the editorship of La Stampa . Therefore a movement entirely within the Gedi group, with the Turin newspaper destined to become only a regional newspaper abandoning national ambitions with the direction of Andrea Malaguti, as can also be seen from the communication from the Gedi group: "Malaguti takes on the role with the task of give further impetus to the ongoing innovation process, paying particular attention to strengthening the unique bond between the Press and the readers of its territory, respecting the best editorial tradition of the newspaper", put pen to paper the company controlled by John's Exor Elkann.
But Massimo Giannini's career did not begin at Repubblica . He took his first steps in journalism at Economia e Tributi , a weekly newspaper of the Sole24Ore group. Giannini arrived there in 1986: a year and pennies as a collaborator and then the employment contract, as a "practitioner".
In 1988 the doors of Repubblica opened and he would have joined the newspaper then directed by Eugenio Scalfari as a trainee, if the director of Economy and Taxes had not given him a "gift" or a declaration which, backdating the start of the traineeship (then it was permission), allowed him to take the state exam to become a professional journalist a few months early.
A no small favor, which guaranteed the now former director of La Stampa to enter Repubblica with a higher qualification, therefore a higher salary and, above all, the much more downhill road to a brilliant and deserved career, even if La Stampa does not emerge triumphantly given the decline in copies suffered by the newspaper ( a decline common to almost all paper newspapers ), which was also rebuked on TV by the leader of Action, Carlo Calenda.
It's a shame that Giannini never remembered his first director, who passed away about fifteen years ago: never a phone call, never a public remembrance. "Human ingratitude, moreover, is greater than God's mercy", that director loved to repeat.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/la-repubblica-la-stampa-massimo-giannini-e-lingratitudine/ on Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:23:26 +0000.