After evaluating the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories every year, only 24% of the countries studied in the RSF Index<\/a> were classified as “good”, a decline when compares to the 2018 ranking at 26%, showing that an intense climate of fear has been triggered across the reporting environment.<\/p>\n Norway recored the best score for press freedom, followed by Finland and Sweden, while\u00a0Eritrea, North Korea and Turkmenistan ranked lowest, as the level of violence used to persecute journalists who aggravate authorities in these countries seems to know no limits.<\/p>\n Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested Thursday, April 11 at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he had sheltered since 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”3,4,5,6″ ihc_mb_template=”3″ ]<\/a><\/p>\n Of all the world\u2019s regions, it is the\u00a0Americas\u00a0(North\u00a0and\u00a0South) that has suffered the greatest deterioration (3.6%t) in its regional score measuring the level of press freedom constraints and violations.<\/p>\n The increasingly hostile climate that goes beyond Donald Trump\u2019s comments has placed the United States at 48th, falling three places in this year\u2019s Index, classifying the media climate as \u201cproblematic\u201d (orange).<\/p>\n Never before have United States journalists been subjected to so many death threats or turned so often to private security firms for protection. Hatred of the media is now such that a man walked into the\u00a0Capital Gazette\u00a0<\/em>newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, in June 2018 and opened fire, killing four journalists and one other member of the newspaper\u2019s staff<\/a>. The gunman had repeatedly expressed his hatred for the paper on social networks before ultimately acting on his words.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Eastern Europe and Central Asia region continues to rank second from last in the Index, the position it has held for years, while the\u00a0European Union and Balkans registered the second biggest deterioration (1.7%) in its regional score measuring the level of constraints and violations.<\/p>\n Although the deterioration in its regional score was smaller, the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0and\u00a0North Africa region continue to be the most difficult and dangerous for journalists. Africa registered the smallest deterioration in its regional score in the 2019 Index, but also some of the biggest changes in individual country rankings.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to learn how the index was compiled.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/f3-1024x576.jpg\")
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A changing world<\/h2>\n
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