JOURNALISM A LETHAL OCCUPATION DURING 2007 SAYS MEDIA WATCHDOG GROUP
December 19th 2007 00:57
Media watchdog group, The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday that 64 journalists in 17 countries died while covering the news in 2007, the deadliest year in more than a decade.
In its annual report it said that Iraq led the list for the fifth year in a row, with 31 dead, one less than a year ago. Somalia was second with seven dead in 2007, and Pakistan and Sri Lanka each recorded five deaths.
The global figure of 64 was an increase of eight over the previous year and two short of the record of 66 set in 1994, when strife ripped Algeria, Bosnia and Rwanda.
Since the Vietnam War, murder has steadily replaced combat as the primary cause of media deaths.
Of the 31 killed in Iraq in 2007, 24 were murdered, the report said. All but one were Iraqi citizens, including nine working for international news organisations such as The Associated Press, Reuters, The Washington Post, ABC News and The New York Times.
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