Freedom of the Press and Corruption: Challenge by Reportika to the Reports of RSF and Transparency

The fine journalists who have united under the umbrella of the Investigative Journalism Reportika collective are questioning the validity of major annual rankings on press freedom, corruption, happiness, etc. This collective has just published a study entitled, “What’s Wrong with the Reports?”. The study lists some of the more commonly cited flaws of these popular global rankings. “The rankings are frequently rife with inaccuracies, methodological flaws, limited data availability, and glaring propaganda. The very reports that claim to give unbiased assessments often, instead, introduce bias, create misleading narratives or ignore regional and cultural subtleties that they claim to measure ,…