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Is press freedom retreating everywhere?

Reporting the news can cost you your freedom, or your life: a journey into a fragile right.

A right under pressure3 min read5 partsQuiz of 9 questions
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Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction

Press freedom is one of the best indicators of a country's democratic health. It is not only the right to publish: it includes the ability of citizens to reach information that has been checked and is independent of those in power. Around the world, the right faces pressure from two sides: direct repression in authoritarian regimes, and a quieter erosion inside democracies themselves.

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  1. 2A job that keeps getting more dangerous
  2. 3Democracies are not safe either
  3. 4Money, the new adversary of journalism
  4. 5Checking reality in a world flooded with images
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
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