{"id":983,"date":"2012-08-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2012-12-05T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:02:09","slug":"freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/press-freedom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-991 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/press-freedom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/press-freedom.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/press-freedom-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/press-freedom-469x300.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2012 has seen positive and negative changes in freedom of the press around the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/\">Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, the largest organization that advocates freedom of the press worldwide, compiles a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html\">Press Freedom Index<\/a> where countries ranking at the top score high in press freedom, and countries at the bottom constitute the most repressive in terms of freedom of information and violence against journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Some countries ranking at the top include Finland, Norway and Estonia. Countries at the bottom include Eritrea, North Korea and Turkmenistan. Countries showing improvements worth noting include Tunisia, South Sudan and Niger. In Latin America, Brazil showed the biggest decline.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 has seen positive and negative changes in freedom of the press around the world. Reporters Without Borders, the largest organization that advocates freedom of the press worldwide, compiles a Press Freedom Index where countries ranking at the top score high in press freedom, and countries at the bottom constitute the most repressive in terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Freedom of the Press Around the World in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/29\/freedom-of-the-press-around-the-world-in-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,15,494,32,19,30],"tags":[1360,349,347,1377,291,348,345,344,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}