REPORTERS without Borders or Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) organisation headquartered in Paris, France.Following criteria are considered while calculating the PFI: PLURALISM (existence of multiple media houses).Independence of journalism.Media environment.Legislative framework.Safety of Journalists.The index has been regularly published since the year 2002.It is a score-based ranking system, the country with maximum scores has the highest rank (best QUALITY of journalism).In 2019, Norway topped the list of countries.Rank of India dropped by two places in 2019 (from 138 to 140), owing to the murder of six journalists in a row.In 2020 PFI Norway, DENMARK and Sweden are the top three countries.The rank of India in PFI 2020 has dropped by two more places and currently stands at 142, because of decreasing press freedom and increasing violence against journalists.India's rank has been constantly depleting since the year 2017 by 2 places every year