55 on the Globe Press Independence Index. It is actually a reduced credit rating that has regularly fallen over the years, and also’s due to an amount of factors: Prevalent media unemployments, the downtrend of local headlines, the incidence of online pestering to women and also minority reporters, the absence of regulations shielding reporters, the demonization of reporters, and even more. There’s a lot that needs to have to become performed to continue upholding the First Amendment far and away, and also the next president possesses the option to strengthen defenses– or even make the state of the press even worse.The full record is actually available right here.