Freedom of the press declined across the globe last year to its lowest point in more than a decade, a Washington watchdog group has concluded.
Freedom House, which advocates for the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world, said in a new report Wednesday that only one in seven people across the globe lives in countries where coverage of political news is robust, journalists’ safety is guaranteed, there is minimal state intrusion in the media’s affairs and the media are “not subject to onerous legal or economic pressures.”
Jennifer Dunham, the report’s research director, told VOA that authoritarian rulers and terrorist …read more
Source: Voice of America
