Not buying it sorry.
I've read the report every year and they don't publish their aggregated data.
The questionnaires are filled by local representatives of their choosing.
They had have made political moves which go against their own statements and condemnations and they have quite a few very weird picks that don't even seem to correspond to their own summary of the country.
And while it's true that I can't hold an intuitive understanding of the freedom of the press in various countries I can some how understand that countries where the government shuts down TV stations and news papers all day long probably have less freedom than countries where "organized crime" harasses Journalists.
Okay, I'd buy that the targets of the survey may very well be pre-selected to align politically with a particular set of positions.
What do you mean by aggregated data? I'm fairly well trained in mathematics and statistics but I'm not sure what that phrase means -- does it not just mean the statistics derived from the sample?
And doesn't it matter mostly how /the journalists/ feel about how much press freedom they have? Journalists may very well not be effected by overreaching hate crime legislation (journalism rarely involves writing hate speech) though laypeople see it as a violation of freedom of speech. Organized crime may feel more oppressive than certain oppressive governments. And the survey only purports to express the opinions of journalists in many countries about how free they feel they are, it doesn't pretend to solve a centuries old open problem in philosophy and accurately define 'freedom' and then measure it.
Aggregated data means actually publishing the data they've collected not some numbers that may or may not hold any relevance.
For each country they should publish how many questionnaires were issued, who they were issued too (local journalists? foreign journalists?) split abuses to actual abuse of power by the state vs the nature of reporting from conflict zones, and maybe make those filled questionnaires public with or without the actual names?
And while it's true that I can't hold an intuitive understanding of the freedom of the press in various countries I can some how understand that countries where the government shuts down TV stations and news papers all day long probably have less freedom than countries where "organized crime" harasses Journalists.