How Press Freedom Came Under Attack in 2020

Malala Maiwand, a reporter for Enikass Radio and TV in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, was on her way to work on Dec. 10 when gunmen opened fire on her car, killing her and her driver, Mohammad Tahir. She was the fourth journalist killed in Afghanistan in 2020 and the 28th worldwide in a year that has seen journalism come under a new and sustained level of attack. New restrictions on press freedoms—many of them imposed in connection with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic—made it ever harder for journalists to independently report the news....