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From a USA perspective, we have freedom of press / speech, which means that the government is not allowed to interfere / pass laws. I feel like this is reasonable.

Other than that, truth can't be a basic human right in the sense that, say, water or shelter can be, because what does that even mean? How would you go about providing truth to someone?

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Is the freedom of speech as stated in law enough? I can imagine that a lot of journalists are afraid to say what they want (or need) to say. The thread of losing the job is possibly a great burden in the pursuit of truth. We should enable some sort of financial independence for journalists to give them every reason to speak and write truthfully. A young and starting journalist needs a job at an established organization and is therefore bound to theire agenda.

I agree that the world is better with independant journalists seeking and speaking truth to power. However, I disagree with your conclusion that the way to get this is basically state funded journalists. State controlled media is a sign of corrupt governments world wide, we must not go in that direction.

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