Reporters Without Borders has released its 2021 Index which finds “a dramatic deterioration in people’s access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage”, and that the Covid-19 pandemic has been used to prevent journalists from accessing information and to restrict critical reporting. According to the report, journalism is currently completely blocked or seriously impeded in 73 countries and constrained in 59 countries, with only 12 out of the countries ranked deemed to have a free and favourable environment for journalism. Covid-19 has also…