Reporters Without Borders lays out reasons for Malta’s decline in press freedom ranking

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF)‘s World Press Freedom Index which was released on April 18 has seen Malta’s ranking slide 32 places in the last two years. This should be a cause for concern. Instead, Mark Anthony Falzon, in his column entitled ‘Reporters Without Arguments’, chose to criticise the Index. RSF is therefore putting its arguments forward to address any misconceptions contained in Op-Ed, that the Sunday Times of Malta published int edition dated May 5th.In a column published in the Sunday Times of Malta on April 28), Prof Falzon, a senior Lecturer and Head of Department at the University…

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