Por MRNews
Brazil has jumped out of 47 positions in the world's freedom ranking of reporters without borders (RSF)non -governmental and non -profit organization. The comparison is between the position of 2025, when the country was in 63rd position, and 2022. According to the researchers, there is a less hostile climate to journalism after the “Bolsonaro”.
The study defines Freedom of the press such as “the effective possibility of journalists, such as individuals and as collectives, selecting, producing and disseminating information of public interest, regardless of political, economic, legal and social interference, and without threat to their physical and mental security.”
Brazilian numbers, however, are among the few improvements in this 2025 indicator. Six out of ten countries have fallen into the ranking. For the first time in the history of the survey, the conditions for journalism are considered “bad” in half the countries of the world and “satisfactory” in less than one in four.
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The average score of all evaluated countries was below 55 points, which qualifies the situation of press freedom in the world as “difficult.” According to RSF, the ranking is an index that measures the conditions for the free exercise of journalism in 180 countries around the world.
The index has five indicators: political, social, economic, legal framework and security. Based on their score, the overall score is defined by country. The economic indicator was the one that weighed the most in 2025. Which means to speak of concentrating the property of the media, pressure from advertisers or financiers, absence, restriction or opaque attribution of public aid.
According to RSF, the media are divided between the guarantee of independence itself and the struggle for economic survival.
“Ensuring a space for pluralistic, free and independent media requires stable and transparent financial conditions. Without economic independence, there is no free press. When a means of communication is economically weakened, it is dragged by the racing by audience to the detriment of quality, and can become easy prey to oligarchs or public decision makers who explore it, Anne Bocandé, editorial director of RSF.
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“Financial independence is a vital condition to ensure free, reliable and public interest information.”
Other data
Some countries deserve prominence in the research. Case of Argentina, which occupies 87th position among the 180 countries. According to the survey, there are setbacks for the authoritarian trends of President Javier Milei's government, who stigmatized journalists, dismantled the public media and used state advertising as an instrument of political pressure. The country has lost 47 positions in two years.
Peru (130º) was also a place where researchers identified that freedom of the press collapsed53 positions less since 2022. The reasons given are judicial harassment, disinformation campaigns and growing pressure on independent media.
The United States (57th) are marked by Donald Trump's second term, Which, according to the survey, politicized institutions, reduced support to the independent media and marginalized journalists. In the country, confidence in the media is falling, reporters have faced hostility, and many local newspapers are disappearing. Trump also ended the federal funding of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
The regions of the Middle East and North Africa are considered the most dangerous for journalists in the world. Highlight, according to RSF, for the massacre of journalism in Gaza by the Israeli army. The situation of all countries in these regions is considered “difficult” or “very serious” except the Qatar (79th).
Big Techs
RSF scores the role of big techs in current problems. He says the media economy is undermined by the domain of Gafam (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) in the distribution of information. What it means to talk about unregulated platforms that capture advertising recipes that supported journalism.
The 2024 figures show that total spending on social networks on social networks reached US $ 247.3 billion, an increase of 14% compared to 2023. RSF points out that they also contribute to the proliferation of manipulated or misleading content, making the phenomena of misinformation worse.
Another point of concern is the concentration of ownership, which directly threatens press pluralism. In 46 countries, ownership of the media is highly concentrated – or even totally in the hands of the state – according to ranking data analysis.