Press freedom in the world

« The infographic below is entitled Press Freedom in The World.

It represents 3 types of balance sheet from “reporters without borders” which is a worldrenowned organization meaning that the information is reliable.

Released in 2019, the subject tackled is obviously the issue of press freedom in the world but mainly the number of journalists who have been killed from 2010 to 2019 all around the world.

The document is divided in 3 different parts: the first part is dealing with the number of journalists killed between those years.

The second tackles the number of journalists who were held hostage, killed, or detained from 2010 to 2019 and the third one shows the different conditions in which forty-nine journalists have been killed. First in the chart dealing with the journalists killed, we can see that in the past ten years from 2010 to 2019, 941 journalists have been killed.

From 2010 to 2012, the number went through the roof, going from fifty-nine to one hundred and forty-seven killed.

Conversely, from 2013 to 2017, it mainly flattened out going from one hundred and forty-three in 2013 to twenty-four in 2017 until reaching a low of forty-nine killed in 2019, which is even less than in 2010 where the chart began, and the lowest number of deaths over ten years.

The reason for the unprecedented number of journalists killed in 2012 is mainly the war in Syria, the chaos in Somalia and Taliban violence in Pakistan.

Because of the polarization of information sources, news manipulation, propaganda, technical constraints and the extreme violence to which journalists and citizen journalists were exposed to, anyone who tried to broadcast information were at risk. Therefore, we can say that even if the number of deaths finally shrink, it remains a concerning and current issue.

In the second part, three types of actions journalists could undergo in 2019 in the world were tackled.

They could be held hostage, killed, or detained.

We can notice three lozenges representing these actions from those that were carried out the most whose diamond is the biggest to those that were carried out the less whose diamond is the smallest.

On four hundred and ninety-five journalists, three hundred and eighty- nine, that is more than the majority of them, have been.... »