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AlterNet on MSN'Perilous moment': NY Times publisher warns Trump waging 'frontal attack' on free pressNew York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said that the United States is currently experiencing an "anti-press campaign," describing it as "the most frontal attack on the American press in a century.
Leading journalists were among dozens of people who marched through the Dominican Republic’s capital to decry a bill that critics warn could lead to government censorship.
World Press Freedom Index, Top 10 best and worst countries in 2025: India ranked 151st with a total score of 32.96 in the World Press Freedom Index in 2025, moving up 8 places from 159th last year, as reported by RSF.
Press freedom continues to be under threat globally, with journalists being killed or injured, others being censored, and media outlets being closed down, among others.
These ten cases illuminate governments’ efforts at criminalizing journalism and withholding information from the public.
Local media outlets will find ways to adapt to waning foreign financial support, but they still need external partners to stand up for the principles of free expression.
Press freedom has been stifled in Greece since Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative government came to power in 2019, with phone malware and aggressive lawsuits used against journalists, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
The Trump administration's actions toward some news outlets "paint a really alarming picture of deteriorating media freedom in the U.S.," says Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalist
Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO because it awarded a prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa
South Asia Press Freedom Report 2024-25 flags several concerning trends, including a ‘growing trust deficit in media outlets’, ‘choking of independent websites’ and the extreme precarity of gig worker