{"id":118319,"date":"2023-05-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=118319"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T14:51:26","slug":"estonia-falls-to-8th-in-world-press-freedom-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/estonia-falls-to-8th-in-world-press-freedom-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia falls to 8<sup>th<\/sup> in World Press Freedom Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the recently released <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index for 2023, Estonia has fallen four places to eighth. Norway retained its position as top of the 180-country list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s3\">The report noted that \u201calthough <\/span>press freedom is guaranteed on the legal and political levels, journalists face the risk of self-censorship due to anti-defamation legislation and cyber-bullying\u201d. Falling from fifth to 17<sup>th<\/sup> in this particular metric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">The report also noted that although physical attacks on journalists remain extremely rare, the number of online threats by private individuals is growing. Another aspect the report highlighted for Estonia\u2019s fall in the index was the fact that the Estonian public broadcaster has limited resources and that media ownership is essentially concentrated in the ownership of two companies (Postimees Grupp and Ekspress Grupp), who also have stakes in other business sectors. &nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">Elsewhere in the region, Norway remained top of the 180-country list, followed by Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland completing the top five.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Lithuania rose two places to seventh to become the top-ranked Baltic nation, Latvia also rose in the index up from 22<sup>nd<\/sup> last year to 16<sup>th<\/sup> in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to the recently released Reporters Without Borders (RSF) press freedom index for 2023, Estonia has fallen four places &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[14712,14714,14716,14717,18288],"class_list":["post-118319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-world-press-freedom-index","tag-press-freedom","tag-reporters-without-borders","tag-norway","tag-journalist"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118326,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118319\/revisions\/118326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}