Rai News

Rai News is the news service of RAI, Italy's national public-service broadcaster, providing rolling television news and an online platform. As a publicly funded service, it offers broad coverage of national and international affairs, politics, economics, and culture in Italian. It is among the country's principal sources of televised public-service news.

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Rai News at a glance

Country: Italy
Region: Southern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Public broadcaster
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1999
Owner: RAI, the Italian public broadcaster
Published from: Rome
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How Crosswire groups Rai News

Crosswire groups Rai News as Centrist for comparisons within Italy's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Italy, Il Fatto Quotidiano is listed as Left-leaning, while Il Giornale is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Rai News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Rai News sits in Italy's press

Rai News was founded in 1999, is published from Rome and is owned by RAI, the Italian public broadcaster. It is one of 10 outlets tracked in Italy and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Italy ranks fourth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Rai News outside Italy, starting with Southern Europe, are RTÉ News (Ireland), RÚV (Iceland), NRK (Norway) and DR (Denmark). Opening one of them beside Rai News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.