The Latest Breaking News from Reporters Without Borders

Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day. Among the flurry of reports on how journalists are often attacked, threatened and killed for their work, Reporters Without Borders released its annual World Press Freedom Index for 2022.

Myanmar and Hong Kong among worst performers while UK ranked 24th and US 42nd

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has announced the creation of "mirror" websites that allow RFI and France 24 to remain available online in Mali despite a ruling junta ban on the French broadcasters.

Journalists often do their best work in places that offer the least welcoming environment.

A video has emerged of the French journalist Olivier Dubois who has been held hostage since April 2021. Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Monday appealed for his release.

Turkish journalist Sedef Kabas begins her second month in detention on Tuesday for "insulting the president", an increasingly common offence which observers believe is stifling critical voices 16 months before the presidential election. The 52-year-old has already spent longer in jail than any other journalist for this alleged offence, according…

The union home ministry said that it does not agree with the views and rankings of the World Press Freedom Index published by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, describing the latter as a “foreign NGO”. The group publishes the rankings every year; India ranked 142nd out of 180 countries in…

Every year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international non-profit, publishes a report on freedom of the press around the world. And for the second consecutive year, India has slipped in the rankings.