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In honor of Friday's World Press Freedom Day, the non-governmental organization Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) launched a campaign depicting world-famous dictators giving everyone the finger, or the international equivalent thereof.

Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday launched a new indicator measuring global press freedom by aggregating the scores of its annual index, from perennial table-topping Finland to worst offenders Eritrea.

SAN FRANCISCO — Civil liberties groups on Monday launched protests targeting proposed US cyber intelligence law that they fear would let police freely dip into people's private online information.

In the wide world of reporting, the nation of Finland is the very best place to be a journalist -- or Norway (they're tied for first). But in the United States, press freedoms are gradually sinking into the mire, and with them, so too goes the nation's placement on the annual "Press Freedom Index" put together by Reporters Without Borders.

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi parliament on Tuesday approved a law aimed at strengthening journalists' rights in a country that tops the list of unsolved killings of members of the media.