Source: Al Jazeeera [Qatari state media]
“Freedom of the press around the world has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to the leading Paris-based press freedom NGO, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders. Every year, RSF publishes a World Press Freedom Index used to compare the level of freedom enjoyed by journalists and media outlets in 180 countries. Its ranking uses a five-point scale to assess a country’s level of press freedom, ranging from ‘very serious’ to ‘good.’ For the first time since RSF started producing the index in 2002, more than half of the world’s countries fall into the ‘difficult’ or ‘very serious’ categories for press freedom – ‘a clear sign that journalism is increasingly criminalised worldwide.'” (04/29/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/30/global-press-freedom-falls-to-its-lowest-level-in-25-years