If nothing is done, Kenyan journalists are not safe at all

Over 400 journalists have been killed over the last six years. [iStock]

We can measure the openness of societies by the way our journalists are treated.

As the world approaches World Press Freedom Day on May 3, this year’s General Elections are already testing media freedoms and the public’s right to be informed. At their very best, journalists are inconvenient truth-tellers and protectors of our public conscience. An open, informed, and democratic society is impossible without investigative evidence-based journalism as our moral compass. These standards are stress-tested hardest in moments of elections, coups, and conflict across the world.