For more than two months, GroundTruth has been on a virtual road trip through the crisis in local news across America. We’ve ...

The world’s top 10 best and worst countries for press freedom in 2026: For the first time ever, more than half of the countries assessed fall into the 'difficult' or 'very serious' category.

The debate on the lack of ‘freedom of the press’ in India has flared up once again after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to five European nations. In Oslo, Mr Modi attended a joint ...

India fell to 157th rank in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, down from 151 last year. The report cited rising judicial pressure on media. Globally, press freedom ...

Media insiders say Japan’s press is rarely overtly repressed, but access pressures and newsroom caution still shape what gets ...

World Press Freedom Index, which assessed 180 countries, finds established journalism is ‘being asphyxiated’ ...

Freedom of the press around the world has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, according to the leading Paris-based press freedom NGO, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters ...

In India, the Reporters Without Borders says, ‘judicial harassment of independent media is intensifying, driven by the growing use of criminal statutes – defamation and national security laws among th ...

International rankings are neither absolute nor worthless. They can be useful for gauging patterns but are unreliable as ...

RSF 2026 World Press Freedom Index reveals global press freedom at a 25 year low, with India falling, Norway leading and Eritrea ranked last.