{"id":927631,"date":"2025-05-03T08:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=927631"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T02:52:56","slug":"press-freedom-ranking-improves-for-india-but-concerns-over-media-pluralism-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/03\/press-freedom-ranking-improves-for-india-but-concerns-over-media-pluralism-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Press freedom ranking improves for India, but concerns over media pluralism persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has risen to rank 151 from 159 on the Reporters sans Fronti\u00e8res\u2019 (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, which evaluates 180 countries. <\/p>\n<p>The non-government organisation RSF noted that the Adani group\u2019s takeover of NDTV had \u201csignalled the end of pluralism in the mainstream media\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the increase in rank, the RSF continues to rate India\u2019s \u201cpress freedom situation\u201d at the lowest category \u2014 \u201cvery serious\u201d \u2014 similar to most South Asian countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has risen to rank 151 from 159 on the Reporters sans Fronti\u00e8res\u2019 (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, which evaluates 180 countries. The non-government organisation RSF noted that the Adani group\u2019s takeover of NDTV had \u201csignalled the end of pluralism in the mainstream media\u201d. Despite the increase in rank, the RSF continues to rate India\u2019s \u201cpress freedom situation\u201d at the lowest category \u2014 \u201cvery serious\u201d \u2014 similar to most South Asian countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}