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Watchdog finds journalism not free in three-quarters of 180 surveyed nations 2 minutes read Paris, Apr 20 (EFE).- Journalism is “completely or partly blocked” in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed for the World Press Freedom Index, the annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday. The media watchdog said it found that journalism was “totally blocked or seriously impeded in 73 countries and constrained in 59 others.” “The Index data reflect a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage,�...

Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders Christophe Deloire. EFE/FILE/José Méndez Journalism is "completely or partly blocked" in nearly three-quarters of the 180 countries surveyed for the World Press Freedom Index, the annual report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday. The media watchdog said it found that journalism was “totally blocked or seriously impeded in 73 countries and constrained in 59 others.” “The Index data reflect a dramatic deterioration in people's access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage,” said the report released Tuesd...

Republicans’ Criminalization of Protest and Cops’ Crackdown on Journalists Go Hand in Hand While police in Minneapolis assault reporters, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is endorsing violence against demonstrators. It’s time for journalists to put up a fight. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Before lawyers working for her news organization could find her, Carolyn Sung, a CNN producer, was zip-tied and body-scanned, searched by an officer “who put her hands down Sung’s pants and in her bra,” and then was “ordered to strip and to put on an orange uniform.” One state trooper reportedly y...

AMOS News Distribuie pe rețelele tale sociale: Exerciţiul jurnalistic, „principalul vaccin” împotriva dezinformării în plină pandemie, este „total sau parţial blocat” în mai mult de 130 de ţări, avertizează Reporteri fără Frontiere (RSF), în clasamentul mondial al libertăţii presei, ediția din 2021, citat de France Presse şi DPA. 73% din cele 180 de ţări evaluate de ONG-ul cu sediul la Paris se caracterizează prin situaţii considerate „foarte grave”, „dificile” sau „problematice” pentru jurnalişti şi sunt reprezentate în negru, roşu sau portocaliu...

Journalists say police mistreated them during Minnesota protests 18 Apr 2021 / 14:56 H. A police officer uses pepper spray against demonstrators as well as journalists covering a protest on April 16, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where a young Black man was shot and killed by a policewoman who says she meant to fire her Taser. — AFP BROOKLYN CENTER: Several journalists said Saturday that police wrongly impeded their work while covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb over the death of Daunte Wright, a young Black man killed by a white policewoman. The Friday night protest came ...