Anita Varma is the program manager for Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Business, Leadership, and Social Sector Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Initial ...

Global press freedom across the world is at a “critical moment,” campaigners have warned, as a major index mapping the state of global press freedom hits an unprecedented low. In the latest edition of ...

The most negative influence on press freedom was observed in countries with authoritarian presidents, such as Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. This statement was originally published on en ...

For years, the press freedom index by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been widely quoted, even though its methodology is biased and RSF was long led by a white supremacist with a penchant for ...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association believes that the environment for news reporting in Hong Kong has drastically deteriorated over the past year. Government targeting the media is the major reason ...

For the third time in three years, the United States’ standing in an annual index of press freedom declined, a result the report’s authors attributed to President Trump’s anti-press rhetoric and ...