[8] After being fired from La7 in July 2013, Porro moved to Rai 2, becoming the host and author of the new in-depth program Virus - Il contagio delle idee, broadcast in prime time until 2016.

[9] In 2015 he founded the opinion site ''nicolaporro.it'' which, in addition to publishing his daily press review (La zuppa di Porro, from the name of his column in Il Giornale), hosts the contributions of various collaborators of the liberal-conservative area, becomes a newspaper from 20 April 2021.

[10] On June 21, 2016, he made his move to Mediaset official from July 1 of the same year, taking charge of hosting Matrix, which airs twice a week in the late evening on Canale 5 from 2016 to 2019.

[11] In 2021, he inaugurates a series of meetings, entitled La Ripartenza, with panels dedicated to the most important companies and managers of the Italian economy, which has reached its seventh edition.

[20] In June 2020, during the Quarta Repubblica program hosted by Porro, an audio recording was broadcast of the then deceased judge Amedeo Franco toga a lateral of the Cassation trial of Silvio Berlusconi, who reported to the knight harsh and negative judgments on the sentence of August 2013.

After the broadcast of the audio, a series of articles followed in various national newspapers that spoke of "cowardly methods", "fake trial", "rigged sentence", "conspiracy", "the judiciary did a dirty job", "firing squad".

After these events, judge Antonio Esposito filed a complaint for aggravated defamation against a dozen people including Anna Maria Bernini, Vittorio Feltri, Piero Sansonetti, Fabrizio Cicchitto, Pietro Senaldi, Alessandro Sallusti and Nicola Porro.

[21] On May 22, 2023, the Order of Journalists opens a disciplinary action against him on charges of having interviewed the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister Emine Dzhaparova in Quarta Repubblica without cross-examination.