00:00Taiwan ranks 28th in the world and second in Asia for press freedom, according to the latest index
00:05from Media Watchdog Reporters Without Borders. It dropped four places from its ranking last year.
00:11The report surveys media workers in 180 countries and territories around the world.
00:16Worldwide, press freedoms are at a 25-year low. Norway topped the list for a 10th year in a row,
00:23while authoritarian countries China, North Korea and Eritrea ranked at the bottom.
00:27Being a journalist in half the countries surveyed is now considered difficult or very serious.
00:33Wu Ur-Kaishi, a special advisor to Taiwan's Parliamentary Human Rights Commission,
00:37commented on the challenges media workers face.
00:41Nobody knows where the world is changing toward, but everybody seems to get a good idea that it's
00:49going to be different. And I think it's important for the Taiwan journalists and the media workers
00:57to work together, to push Taiwan from excellent to perfect.
01:05RSF pointed to repressive legislation as causing the biggest impact on press freedom scores this year.
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