Why press freedom should be at the top of everyone’s agenda

Jan 8, 2019

A news stand outfitted with "Fake News" headlines for a stunt pulled off by the Columbia Journalism Review is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RC1219EFF020

We need good reporting now more than ever. Democracy depends on it. Image: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Stephen J. Adler

Editor-in-Chief, Reuters

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Proportion of people who say they trust news from each of the above sources, according to the Digital News Report 2018. Image: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism/University of Oxford

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