{"id":3984,"date":"2019-04-29T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"press-freedom-is-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/04\/29\/press-freedom-is-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"Press freedom is declining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frsf.org%2Fen%2F2019-world-press-freedom-index-cycle-fear&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7Ce23cbc5bb4b94f86990308d6ca1e76ca%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636918629531599449&amp;sdata=AjFTenNf65ppF%2FlBxg1nvMSdxLIoDA6g8%2BwRSGWIYfM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">annual report<\/a> from Reporteurs Sans Fronti\u00e8res which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from 26% last year.<\/p>\n<p>Criteria measured include: pluralism, media independence, censorship, the legal framework, and infrastructure. Download the full ranking, methodology and report from the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest annual report from Reporteurs Sans Fronti\u00e8res which ranks 180 nations worldwide only 24% are rated as having a good level of press freedom, a decline from 26% last year. Criteria measured include: pluralism, media independence, censorship, the legal framework, and infrastructure. Download the full ranking, methodology and report from the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[392,64],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}