World Press Freedom Day

  • Report: Press Freedom Reaches Critical Low

    Press freedom has reached a critical low in a record number of countries as repressive governments continue to clamp down on critical voices and the fake content industry continues to expand, according to the World’s Press Freedom Indexpublished on Wednesday on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

  • 2022 World Press Freedom Index Warns on News Chaos, Media Polarization

    An international media watchdog warned on Tuesday about the “disastrous effects of news and information chaos – the effects of a globalized and unregulated online information space that encourages fake news and propaganda.”

  • World Press Freedom Day 2018: Collaboration amid Historic Threats

    The journalists of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) face grave dangers and increasingly difficult challenges in their efforts to expose high-level corruption and government links to organized crime.

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  • OCCRP denounces media repression on World Press Freedom Day

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    With one partner journalist in jail, an online TV channel fighting off criminal charges and collaborators facing daily harassment, surveillance and character assassination in Mafia-friendly media outlets, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) took a pause on World Press Freedom Day to touch base with member news organizations for their reflections.

  • World Press Freedom Day: Azeri Reporter Wins UNESCO Press Freedom Prize From Behind Bars

    Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova won the 2016 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize today from behind bars in a Baku prison. The award marks World Press Freedom Day and will be received at an awards ceremony by her mother, Elmira, today in Helsinki, Finland.

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