Evening Edition: Sharp Rise In Journalists Being Killed

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today is World Press Freedom Day and the journalism NGO 'Reporters Sans Frontiers' (RSF) releases its yearly global index of countries with the highest and lowest amount of press freedoms. This year's report shows an increase in journalists all over the world being killed or imprisoned for their reporting. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Yonat Friling, Senior FOX News Field Producer, about where countries are on the list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1	Monday, May 3rd, 2021. I'm Trey Inks. It's World Press Freedom Day and journalists around
0:29.2	the world are continuing to fight for truth and accountability.
0:32.4	273 journalists have been imprisoned in 2020 all around the world.
0:38.0	66 of them are missing.
0:40.0	Most of them as a retaliatory step toward their reporting.
0:44.6	This is the Fox News rundown, evening addition.
0:48.4	The International Federation of Journalists said 66 members of the media were
0:56.3	killed in 2020.
0:58.0	The number represents a sharp increase from the year prior.
1:01.4	Countries around the world have varying degrees when it comes to freedom
1:04.0	of the press.
1:05.0	Journalists often face arrest and imprisonment just for doing their jobs, an issue that's
1:09.5	highlighted this world press freedom day.
1:11.8	The index is compiled by Reporters Without Borders, an organization that sits in Paris, and it has
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