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Armenia a “Mixed Success” in Terms of Media Freedom Says Recent Survey

The Reporters Without Borders “2016 World Press Freedom Index” came out in May and Armenia ranks 74th out of 180 countries surveyed.

This is four spots up the ladder when compared to its 78th ranking in 2015.

Georgia ranked 64th, Azerbaijan 163rd, and Russia 148th.

In the Index, Armenia is described as a country with ‘mixed success” in terms of media freedom.

“The print media are diverse and polarized, investigative journalism prospers on the Internet, but pluralism lags behind in the broadcast media. In the crucial transition to digital TV, a future space for critical broadcasters will depend on the impartiality of the frequency bidding process. Police violence against journalists still goes unpunished but the Ilur.am news website and the Hraparak newspaper won an important legal victory in October 2015 when the constitutional court issued a ruling upholding the confidentiality of journalists’ sources.”

The Index ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom available to journalists. It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country. It does not rank public policies even if governments obviously have a major impact on their country’s ranking. Nor is it an indicator of the quality of journalism in each country.

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