Czech Republic slips in international ranking of press freedom

The Czech Republic has fallen in an international ranking of press freedom carried out by the non-governmental agency Reporters Without Borders. While in the Press Freedom Index for 2014 the country ranked 12th in the world, in the freshly published ranking for 2015 it places 21st. The annual index looks at factors such as media legislation, plurality of opinion, media ownership and violence against journalists in 180 states.

Author: Ian Willoughby