About Freedom of the Press: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizon (2017)

Freedom of the Press, an annual report on media independence around the world, assesses the degree of print, broadcast, and digital media freedom in 199 countries and territories. Published since 1980, it provides numerical scores and country narratives evaluating the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to news and information. Freedom of the Press is the most comprehensive data set available on global media freedom and serves as a key resource for policymakers, international institutions, journalists, activists, and scholars worldwide.
“Freedom House’s report systematically documents the array of threats to press freedom and applies a consistent standard across all countries. It goes beyond a simple tally of journalists arrested and killed to assess legal restrictions and economic pressures that significantly constrain media freedom.” —Dunja Mijatović, Representative on Freedom of the Media, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (2010–16)
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