Why has it never been harder to be a journalist? On World Press Freedom Day, readers can make a difference to struggling independents via supporter models that beat the censors. The UN says 85% of people live in countries where media freedom has declined in the past five years. “The international community needs to wake up to reality, and act together, decisively and fast, to reverse this dangerous trend.”Īre things bad everywhere? The environment for journalism today is considered “bad” in seven out of 10 countries, and satisfactory in only three out of 10, according to RSF. “There is more red on the RSF map this year than ever before, as authoritarian leaders become increasingly bold in their attempts to silence the press,” the RSF secretary general, Christophe Deloire, told the Guardian.
Increased aggressiveness from autocratic governments – and some that are considered democratic – coupled with “massive disinformation or propaganda campaigns” has caused the situation to go from bad to worse, according to the list, released by the advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
He died by an overdose of morphine, which he was taking to ward off the pain of his diseases, and there is some debate about whether his death was accidental, or a suicide.The World Press Freedom Index revealed a shocking slide, with an unprecedented 31 c ountries deemed to be in a “very serious situation”, the lowest ranking in the report, up from 21 two years ago. Nonetheless, he continued publishing his writing in periodicals, thrilling his readers with adventure stories until his death in 1916. During his adventures, London picked up many diseases that left him in deep pain and also contributed to his growing alcoholism. London also was an advocate of the rights of workers, unionization, and socialism, and wrote a number of novels on those topics. London lasted a year in the Yukon, and returned to California with a wealth of material for his stories, among them The Call of the Wild, his most famous work, and White Fang, its companion. London attended the University of California Berkeley for one semester, before dropping out to seek out his fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897. He worked in a cannery, hunted for oysters in San Francisco bay, traveled across the U.S., and sailed around the Pacific, all before graduating from high school at age 19. London spent his youth traveling around California with his family, where he developed a taste for adventure. Young Jack took his stepfather's surname, London, when Flora married later that year. Jack London was born out of wedlock in 1876 to Flora Wellman Chaney.
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