Media News - Tuesday, December 18, 2007

64 journalists killed worldwide in 2007, the most since ’94

More journalists have been killed worldwide in 2007 than in any year since 1994, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent group that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists. In the committee’s annual report to be released Tuesday, 64 journalists died in circumstances linked to their work in 2007. Nearly half of those deaths, 31, took place in Iraq, which was ranked as the deadliest country for journalists for the fifth consecutive year. Most of the killings were targeted attacks, as opposed to deaths caused by cross-fire, according to the committee. In Africa, the number of deaths rose to 10 this year from 2 in 2006, according to the committee’s report. Somalia, the second deadliest country in 2007, accounted for 7 of those deaths. The committee’s annual report tallies the deaths of journalists that result directly from combat, violence or a direct reprisal for a journalist’s work, like the assassination of the Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink, who was killed in January on a street in Istanbul. The report covers the period from Jan. 1 through Monday. The 64 worldwide deaths cited by the Committee to Protect Journalists are 8 more than in 2006, and the second highest number since the committee started tracking journalist deaths in 1981. The most lethal year was 1994, when conflicts in Rwanda, Bosnia and Algeria contributed to the deaths of 66 journalists. (New York Times)

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