Report: Worldwide Press Freedom Declines

A Washington-based democracy advocacy group says media freedom around the world has declined to its lowest levels in a decade, including in places that had been making progress.Freedom House released its annual press freedom report Thursday with North Korea ranked as the worst of the 197 countries and territories the group rated.Project director Karin Karlekar told VOA that in 2013, only one out of every six people on the planet had access to a "free" media."We see attempts to...

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