MidMed News is a Mediterranean-focused reference for press freedom and media environment. Our Country Profiles blend the RSF World Press Freedom Index, Freedom House’s Freedom in the World assessment, and World Bank socio-economic indicators into a single evergreen resource that journalists, researchers, and policy staff can cite without hunting through three separate databases.
Our mission
We believe accurate, comparable, longitudinal data is a prerequisite for informed coverage of media freedom. By publishing machine-readable profiles for every Mediterranean basin country — and for the wider global set — we aim to lower the cost of entry for journalists, researchers, and civil-society groups tracking the state of the press. Every number you see on this site is traceable to a named, freely-available public dataset.
Who we are
MidMed News is an editorial project curated by a network of correspondents in the Mediterranean basin and international collaborators with subject-matter expertise in press freedom, civil liberties, and political economy. Editorial control rests with the MidMed Desk, which reviews every programmatic page before publication and commissions short analytical write-ups on significant year-over-year shifts in the index data.
What we cover
The editorial centre of gravity is the twenty-one states that border the Mediterranean Sea, grouped into the Northern, Eastern, and Southern shores. Around that core, we publish comparative profiles for every country covered by the RSF and Freedom House projects so that Mediterranean data can be read against a global baseline. Profile pages include a five-year RSF trend, a twelve-year Freedom House trend, the full breakdown of Freedom House’s twenty-five individual indicators, and the standard World Bank country snapshot for socio-economic context.
How we work
We do not edit the underlying numbers. We normalise country names, convert upstream formats into a common schema, and render the combined record in a consistent, legible page. When upstream data is missing, our pages explicitly say so rather than substituting a plausible value. We re-sync the data sources weekly and surface the edition year for each published figure.