{"id":6220,"date":"2022-06-22T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2022-06-22T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:23:57","slug":"the-brave-do-not-keep-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/6220\/the-brave-do-not-keep-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"The brave do not keep silent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everyone is aware of the reports on the situation of press freedom in Poland and Hungary, which has deteriorated rapidly in recent years. But if you look eastward, you will notice that one country has had a particularly bad press freedom situation for decades, but has received less media attention. That country is Bulgaria.<\/strong><\/p>\n The annual Reporters Without Borders (RWB) report on the state of press freedom finds that information diversity and investigative journalism are under serious threat in Bulgaria. In 2021, the southeastern European country ranked 112th out of 180 in the world. In 2009, two years after Bulgaria’s entry into the EU, RWB already reported that press freedom in the country was endangered. However, at that time Bulgaria was ranked 59th, and today it is far from that rank. RWB started to publish the press freedom index in 2002. Back then, Bulgaria has been an EU membership candidate and was even ranked 38th. How did this development come about? Will the situation change with the new government that was elected last November, or has it already?<\/p>\n