US EditionAfrica: What Is The State of Global Press Freedom in 2025?
- Reporters Without Borders released the 2025 World Press Freedom Index on May 3, revealing a global decline in press freedom described as a 'difficult situation'.
- This decline results largely from economic pressure on news organizations, growing media ownership concentration, and the dominance of tech giants over advertising revenues.
- Media outlets face shrinking editorial independence amid advertiser shifts to content creators and social media, while governments, extremists, and militaries fuel disinformation and repression of journalists worldwide.
- RSF editorial director Anne Bocand emphasized the severity of the crisis by stating that when journalists lack financial resources, they become vulnerable to forces that threaten press freedom.
- The report warns that without urgent measures to restore media economics and protect journalists, ongoing press freedom erosion risks undermining democratic societies globally.
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Africa: What Is The State of Global Press Freedom in 2025?
Around the world, journalists are being silenced, jailed, and disappeared - simply for doing their jobs. From Guatemala to the USA, Russia to Pakistan, governments are increasingly resorting to authoritarian practices, weaponizing vague laws, judicial systems, and brute force to suppress press freedom.
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einnews.comFinland holds firm at 5th in global press freedom ranking
Finland has ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index for the fourth year in a row, according to the 2025 report released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday. Norway once again tops the index, followed by Estonia, the Netherlands and Sweden. At the bottom of the list of 180 countries are Eritrea, North Korea, China, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. The RSF noted that press freedom in Finland remains strong, anchored by constitutional sa…
RSF Index: Press Freedom Suffers Historic Low Amid Economic Crisis
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Friday announced that the economic indicator in its 2025 World Press Freedom Index has fallen to an unprecedented, critical low, prompting the global state of press freedom to be classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the Index’s history. Of the five metrics RSF tracks, the indicator measuring the financial conditions of journalism and economic pressure on the industry dragged down the worl…
RSF report says global press freedom deteriorating as economic fragility
RSF report says global press freedom deteriorating as economic fragility and authoritarian control deepen The 2025 RSF World Press Freedom Index identifies worsening global press conditions, with economic pressure emerging as the top threat. Singapore, despite economic success, is cited as a negative example in media freedom due to state control and lack of editorial independence. https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/05...ol-deepen/
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