Today is World Press Freedom Day- why is it important?

World Press Freedom day is celebrated annually on the 3rd May
the UNESCO official website 2019 focuses on the role of the media in the fight against misinformation

These include a book on press freedom and the safety of journalists and other resolutions, papers and resources. these include World Trends in Freedom of Expression series

The United Nations website has links to related resolutions, reports and committee websites


Why is this day important?

Find out which country has the most free press according to the annual barometer complied by RSF . The methodology used is displayed on the website

An Alternative freedom of the Press ranking is compiled annually by Freedom House .

Other well known indexes are:

The African Media Barometer was developed by fesmedia Africa, the Media Project of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Africa, and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) in 2004.
Every two to three years a panel of 10 to 12 local experts, consisting of at least five media practitioners and media expert and five representatives from civil society, meet to assess the media situation in their own country. A report is then compiled by expert panellists based on 39 criteria,

Afrobarometer has a new report on media freedom from opinion polls conducted in African nations

European Centre for Press and Media Freedom has a resource section on its website with useful research reports and papers on trends in media pluralism and threats to media freedom in the region