Nice! Reporters Without Borders has a chart of the first worldwide press freedom index (and a pretty graphic too). USA is 17th, UK is tied for 21st. Slovenia and Costa Rica are above both.
Here is the list from 85 to 100. A major Middle Eastern democracy should be doing better... 85:Burkina Faso 86:Tajikistan 87:Chad 88:Cameroun 89:Morocco tied Philippines tied Swaziland 92:Israel 93:Angola 94:Guinea-Bissau 95:Algeria 96:Djibouti 97:Togo 98:Kyrgyzstan 99:Jordan tied Turkey

Methodology should improve over time, but for the moment, this page explains it