Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Director General Thibaut Bruttin warned that journalist killings endanger the public’s right to know, linking reporters’ safety to access to information.
Bruttin made the warning in a France 24 interview published Monday to mark a United Nations observance focused on impunity for crimes against journalists. He told interviewer Eve Irvine that a journalist’s death puts “everyone’s right to know” in danger.
France 24 also reported that RSF had published a list of press freedom “predators.” The broadcaster’s introduction to the interview described pressures on journalists that include imprisonment, political intimidation, deadly attacks and increasingly hostile working conditions.
France 24 presented those pressures as part of a broader concern about who controls the public’s access to information.
