Comment by riffraff

just a note: the RSF World Press Freedom Index is not based on hard data or sound statistics, it's based on a few questionnaires sent to journalists picked by RSF itself.

How many it's unclear, but it was ~150[0] some years ago, of which 50 in France[1] to monitor 180 countries.

It's worth as a generic "are we doing better than last year?" but I wouldn't consider ranking to be particularly meaningful.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130819031406/http://en.rsf.org...

[1] https://akademie.dw.com/en/the-press-freedom-index-by-report...