2024 World Press Freedom Index: Political Pressure Threatens Journalism in a Key Election Year

In what amounts to a key election year, where roughly half the world will go to the polls, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns that political pressure is increasingly threatening journalism and the public’s right to know. In its 2024 World Press Freedom report RSF finds that the political indicator, one of five metrics used in compiling the index, has fallen the most, an average drop of 7.6 points across the globe. Overall, RSF’s World Press Freedom Index rated conditions for practicing journalism as satisfactory in only one quarter of 180 countries ranked around the world.

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