That's 64 journalists from 17 countries who died trying to bring you the news. The unfortunate record was set in 1994, when 66 journalists were killed in the year of the Rwandan genocide and turmoil in Bosnia and Algeria. Another 22 deaths are being investigated by the Committee to Protect Journalists, to see if they are directly related to the work of reporting.
No surprise that, for the fifth year in a row, Iraq is the most frequent site of these deaths. Somalia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka round out the list.
"Since the Vietnam War, murder has steadily replaced combat as the primary cause of media deaths — seven in 10 in recent years, CPJ said.
"This has reached its peak in Iraq, where most of the 124 reporters, photographers and editors, and the 49 other news employees killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003, were slain after being abducted. ...
"'These journalists gave their lives so that all of us could be informed about what is happening in Iraq,' Simon said."
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