Media watchdogs warn that mounting political pressures are putting journalists at risk on the job as press freedom is slipping around the world.
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00:00 May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, but media watchdogs say mounting political
00:05 pressures are leaving journalists vulnerable. In its annual report on press
00:09 freedom, Reporters Without Borders says governments around the world are failing
00:14 to protect journalists. They warn that as political pressures increase, violence
00:18 against journalists goes up as well. UNESCO has awarded its World Press
00:23 Freedom Prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza.
00:26 Over a hundred Palestinian journalists have been killed since the war began,
00:31 making it the most dangerous conflict for journalists in history.