World Press Trends 2023–24: Challenges to Press Freedom
News publishers are facing growing obstacles as barriers to media freedom continue to mount across the globe
This is an extract from the WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship report, World Press Trends Outlook 2023–2024. Other chapters are also available as standalone articles. You can read the Executive Summary here, the Global Snapshot of Key Performance Indicators, a Comprehensive Business Outlook and a deep dive into Revenue Trends and Forecasts, how publishers are dealing with the challenges — and opportunities — presented by AI, and a look at the areas to watch in the year ahead.
In this concluding chapter, we assess the degree to which news publishers are grappling with threats to media freedom and outline the various manifestations of this challenge.
Theme 1: An increasingly bleak picture
As in previous years, our survey also probed respondents about various aspects concerning media freedom and freedom of expression. We posed these questions at a pivotal moment for our profession, as we observe the diminishing media freedom worldwide and the growing challenges that journalists encounter in carrying out their work.
