Overview
- Reporters sans frontières published its ten priorities on Monday, November 9, 2026, and asked presidential candidates to make the right to reliable information a central campaign commitment.
- The platform calls for declaring the right to reliable information the 'grande cause nationale' for 2027 and for concrete measures to guarantee newsroom editorial independence and stronger protection of journalists' sources.
- RSF proposes tighter anti-concentration rules, including a new threshold based on an actor's overall 'capacity to influence public opinion' that would be assessed across every media outlet controlled by the same owner.
- The manifesto demands that social networks and artificial intelligence actors properly remunerate media for using their content and urges a national plan to bolster local news and youth access, including a proposed 'pass média' for 15–24 year-olds.
- The NGO framed its agenda as an electoral pressure tool because public-broadcaster funding and independence face political risk, notes that France ranks 25th in RSF's 2026 press-freedom index, and recalled that the 2023 États généraux proposals were never turned into law.