Media rights group RSF warned Friday about \u201can alarming deterioration in press freedom\u201d in the United States under President Donald Trump as well as \u201cunprecedented\u201d difficulties for independent journalists around the world.<\/p>\n
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, which has been tracking press freedom for the last 23 years, said its main index had fallen to its lowest-ever level.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the first time in the history of the index, the conditions for practising journalism are poor in half of the world\u2019s countries and satisfactory in fewer than one in four,\u201d an annual review of media freedom globally by the charity concluded.<\/p>\n
RSF editorial director Anne Bocande highlighted the role of economic pressures in undermining fact-based reporting, with many independent outlets having to close because of funding difficulties.<\/p>\n
Although spending on online advertising was still rising \u2013 hitting US$247.3 billion in 2024, according to RSF \u2013 a growing share is captured by online giants Facebook, Google or Amazon rather than media companies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen journalists are impoverished, they no longer have the means to resist the enemies of the press \u2013 those who champion disinformation and propaganda,\u201d Bocande said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Media rights group RSF warned Friday about \u201can alarming deterioration in press freedom\u201d in the United States under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[34171,10105,34172,32,1112,2194,867,837,2175,34174,1115,34170,34173,2532,5806,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-67612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-anne-bocande","9":"tag-argentina","10":"tag-cpj","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-estonia","13":"tag-gaza","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-kamala-harris","17":"tag-media-rights-group-rsf","18":"tag-norway","19":"tag-pbs","20":"tag-radio-free-europe-radio-liberty","21":"tag-sierra-leone","22":"tag-tunisia","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114436646154527604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}