Article in The Guardian by Jason Burke, 9/10/25
Headline: “Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds”
Subhead: “The International IDEA’s survey of democratic markers finds US is offering ‘encouragement’ to populist leaders”
“The International IDEA’s survey – the Global State of Democracy Report 2025 – is published every five years and considered the most comprehensive of its kind, covering 174 countries and measuring democratic performance from 1975.
“The survey found that the freedom of the press had worsened in a quarter of the countries, marking the broadest deterioration since the beginning of the dataset. . .”
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