Czechia up 20 places in World Press Freedom Index

The Czech Republic ranks 20th in the world in this year’s Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index. The Central European state occupied the 40th spot last year. Czechia also ranks the highest among the states of the Visegrad Four (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), with Slovakia coming in second at 27th in the world.

According to RSF, freedom of the press in the Czech Republic is threatened by the high concentration of privately owned media and the pressure exerted on public broadcasting.