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Press freedom internationally at a 25 year low

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ted chittenden

The link comes from Reporters without Borders. And yes. The USA is slipping on the "Freedom Index."

2026 RSF Index: press freedom at a 25-year low

For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the...
rsf.org rsf.org
 
The only places with the best press freedom on this list are in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Even countries like Canada, Australia, UK, I thought would never drop in their press freedom rankings have to face the same issue too.
 
www.rebuildlocalnews.org

Maryland Legislature Passes the Nation’s First State Advertising Set-Aside for Local Newsrooms

The legislation, backed by bipartisan support, will require state agencies to direct 50 percent of their advertising budgets to eligible local news outlets and mandate public reporting of their ad spending.
www.rebuildlocalnews.org www.rebuildlocalnews.org
current.org

Maryland legislature passes advertising set-aside legislation for state news outlets

Once in effect, the legislation will require state agencies to spend at least 50% of their advertising budgets on Maryland public media, commercial or nonprofit news outlets.
current.org current.org

The Maryland General Assembly has passed a bill directing state agencies to allocate half of their advertising dollars to Maryland news organizations, the first state nationwide to pass such legislation.

The state senate unanimously passed the bill in a final vote April 13. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has 30 days to sign the bill into law. Once signed, the legislation will take effect Oct. 1.

Rebuild Local News, a nonprofit coalition that aims to bolster local news through public policy, worked to get the legislation passed with Baltimore Public Media, members of the Maryland-Delaware-DC Broadcasters Association, and Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association Executive Director Rebecca Snyder, who led coalition work in the state. The coalition’s work with members of the state legislature was crucial to the effort, said Lori Henson, RLN’s manager of government advertising policy.
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There are states like Maryland fighting to protect press freedom with state funding to local newsrooms but not sure how that improves the rankings for now but we need to wait for more states to do the same thing.
 


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