{"id":65916,"date":"2019-01-13T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T08:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=65916"},"modified":"2019-01-13T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T08:05:50","slug":"world-press-freedom-index-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-press-freedom-index-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Index 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which country is at the first spot in the World Press Freedom Index 2018 published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)?<br><\/strong> (a) Netherlands<br> (b) Sweden<br> (c) Iceland<br> (d) Norway<br><strong> Answer: (d)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The World Press Freedom Index 2018 compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) features India at 138th rank slipped down from 136th in 2017. <\/li><li>In the published list,Norway holds top spot followed by Sweden,Netherlands while North Korea is the most threatening place(180th rank) for journalists.<\/li><li>World Press Freedom Index published by RSF annually since 2002 measures the level of media freedom in 180 countries.<\/li><li>Out of the 80 journalists killed worldwide in 2018, 49 were meticulously targeted because their reporting posed a threat to the interests of certain people in positions of political, economic, or religious power or organised crime.<\/li><li>Out of 49 journalists killed, 15 journalists were killed in Afghanistan, 11 journalists were killed in Syria, 9 in Mexico, 8 in Yemen, and 6 each in India and the United States. Some positive news from Iraq was also featured where no journalist was killed for the first time.  <\/li><li>The United States of America shares the spot for being the fifth most-deadliest place for journalists with India &amp; is behind Afghanistan, Syria, Mexico and Yemen.<\/li><li>It is worth to note that World Press Freedom Day is observed on 3 May every year to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking_table\">https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/ranking_table<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5483773\/us-deadliest-countries-journalists-deaths-2018\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/5483773\/us-deadliest-countries-journalists-deaths-2018\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/india-fifth-most-deadliest-place-to-be-a-journalist-afghanistan-worst-report\/articleshow\/67159828.cms\">https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/india-fifth-most-deadliest-place-to-be-a-journalist-afghanistan-worst-report\/articleshow\/67159828.cms<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/qrius.com\/india-is-the-fifth-most-deadliest-place-for-journalists-says-rsf-report\/\">https:\/\/qrius.com\/india-is-the-fifth-most-deadliest-place-for-journalists-says-rsf-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which country is at the first spot in the World Press Freedom Index 2018 published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)? (a) Netherlands (b) Sweden (c) Iceland (d) Norway Answer: (d) Related facts: The World Press Freedom Index 2018 compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) features India at 138th rank slipped down from 136th in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":65918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-65916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}