Killing the Messenger: 115 Journalists Died Last Year for Simply for Doing Their Jobs Roy Greenslade - The Guardian
go to original January 9, 2017

Around the world, war correspondents by their very nature routinely face danger on the job. It’s especially true in places like Somalia, Iraq and Syria. But also high-up on the list of deadly places to be a reporter is Mexico. (CCTV America)

A total of 115 journalists died in 2016 simply for doing their jobs, according to the annual report compiled by the International News Safety Institute (INSI), Killing the Messenger.

The year began and ended with mass tragedies involving media workers – in Afghanistan, Colombia and Russia. An attack in January by the Taliban on Tolo TV, one of Afghanistan’s largest entertainment channels, claimed eight lives in a direct assault on press freedom.

In late December, nine journalists were among the 92 people killed when a Russian military plane crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria. The accident came less than a month after 20 journalists were killed when a plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense crashed in Colombia.

“This year, 115 of our media colleagues were killed doing their work,” said INSI director Hannah Storm. “Most were not international journalists, few had the support of major news outlets, and most died after fighting insurmountable odds, daily threats and constant pressures.”

Colombia, Mexico, Afghanistan, Iraq and Russia were the top five most dangerous countries for journalists this year, according to the report, which is compiled for INSI by the Cardiff school of journalism.

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