Italy has slipped three spots, from
46th in 2024 to 49th place in 2025 in the press freedom ranking
drawn up every year by Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters
Without Borders, RSF).
Freedom of the press in Italy, writes the NGO in the factsheet
dedicated to our country published on its website, ''continues
to be threatened by mafia organizations, in particular, in the
south of the country, as well as by various extremist groups
that exercise violence.
"Journalists - continues RSF - also complain about an attempt by
the political class to hinder free information on judicial
matters through a 'gag law' that is added to the gag procedures
(SLAPP) frequent in the country''.
Alessandra Costante, Secretary General of the FNSI Italian
journalists union, said:
"The process of Orbanization of Italian information continues
inexorably, as the RSF rankings show. "Italian information is
caught between threats from the underworld and actions to freeze
media freedom carried out without interruption by Parliament.
"In a year nothing has changed, if anything there have been
worsenings.
"While the Italian Parliament is studying how to get its hands
on the Journalists Guild, it is doing nothing to abolish prison
for defamation through the press".
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