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Stories from 2004-04-30

Press Freedom Day Marks General Decline In Access To Independent Media

Don Hill | Radio Free Europe | April 30, 2004

"'This year, we found that press freedom globally had declined to a new low over the past two years. And this year was the second year of this trend that we saw. Overall, in terms of the global numbers, it looks like 5 percent less of the [world's] population has access to free media, while [the number of] people living in media environments that we classify as "not free"' has increased by 5 percent,' Karlekar said." [more]

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