The World Press Freedom Index is published every year by:
- A.UNESCO
- B.Reporters Without Borders
- C.Freedom House
- D.The International Press Institute
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Reporters Without Borders. The World Press Freedom Index has been brought out since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders, a non-governmental organisation based in Paris, which ranks countries on the conditions in which journalists work. Option A, UNESCO, is linked with press freedom in another way: World Press Freedom Day on 3 May was proclaimed on its recommendation and it awards the Guillermo Cano prize, but it does not publish this index. Option C, Freedom House, is an American body that publishes Freedom in the World, a different report on political rights and civil liberties. Option D, the International Press Institute, works for press freedom but publishes no such ranking. Examiners regularly swap these four names, so attach the index firmly to Reporters Without Borders.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the oldest news agency in the world, founded in 1835 as Agence Havas?
- A.Associated Press
- B.Reuters
- C.Agence France-Presse
- D.United Press International
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Charles-Louis Havas opened Agence Havas in Paris in 1835 to translate and sell foreign news, which makes it the first news agency in the world; the business was reorganised in 1944 and has been known since then as Agence France-Presse.
Read the full explanation →The news agency Reuters, founded in London in 1851, was started by:
- A.Charles-Louis Havas
- B.Paul Julius Reuter
- C.Joseph Pulitzer
- D.Bernhard Wolff
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Paul Julius Reuter, who had earlier worked for Havas in Paris and had used carrier pigeons to carry stock prices between Aachen and Brussels, moved to London and founded his telegraph news office there in 1851, close to the Stock Exchange.
Read the full explanation →Xinhua is the official news agency of which country?
- A.Japan
- B.China
- C.Russia
- D.South Korea
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Xinhua, whose name means new China, was set up in 1931 as the Red China News Agency, took its present name in 1937 and works from Beijing as the state news agency of the People's Republic of China.
Read the full explanation →Yonhap is the national news agency of which country?
- A.Malaysia
- B.Indonesia
- C.South Korea
- D.Vietnam
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Yonhap News Agency works from Seoul and is the main wire service of the Republic of Korea, widely quoted abroad for reports on the Korean peninsula.
Read the full explanation →In 1976, during the Emergency, four Indian news agencies were merged into a single agency named:
- A.Akashvani
- B.Samachar
- C.Bharat Samachar
- D.Rashtriya Samachar
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In 1976 the government merged the Press Trust of India, United News of India, Hindustan Samachar and Samachar Bharati into one agency called Samachar, a step widely seen as part of the control of the press during the Emergency.
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