Plans to sell La Repubblica and La Stampa have sparked concerns about a loss of editorial control, Simona Mangiante has told RT

Plans for two of Italy’s leading newspapers to be sold to a foreign media group amount to a “transfer 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…

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