“We have surveyed 5,000 respondents across the world. It comprises a diverse set including policymakers, journalists and other stakeholders,” Thibaut Bruttin, assistant director general of Reporters Without Borders, said at a press conference in Delhi.
While Bruttin refused to divulge the respondents’ identities, he insisted that it was a diverse set representing different ideologies.
India has nearly 900 privately-owned TV channels, half of which are dedicated to news.
Around 1,40,000 publications are published in more than 20 languages, including some 20,000 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of more than 390 million copies, Reporters Without Borders said.
The US ranks 57th on the index, slipping two positions from the previous year’s ranking.
Even in highly-ranked countries such as Australia (29th), Canada (21st) and Czechia (10th), media concentration is a cause for concern, Reporters Without Borders said.
Reporters sans Frontieres or Reporters Without Borders is an international non-profit and non-governmental organisation headquartered in Paris that focuses on safeguarding the right to freedom of information. PTI SKU SKU SZM SZM