Dangerous year for journalists as 2014 death toll reaches 60
At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
An “unusually high proportion” – about a quarter – of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming number of journalists threatened continue to be local, the New York-based organisation’s new report said.
Those killed in 2014 include Anja Niedringhaus, a photographer for the Associated Press who was shot to death while covering elections in Afghanistan.
The CPJ report released early on Tuesday said the number of journalists killed in 2014 was down from 70 the year before, but the past three years have been the deadliest since the organisation started compiling such records in 1992. According to the report, 44% of journalists were targeted for murder this year.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/23/cpj-report-journalist-deaths-rising-syria