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CPJ: Number of Journalists Killed Rises in 2014


A press freedom group says at least 60 journalists have been killed this year while doing their job, with members of the international press making up a particularly high percentage of the dead.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists issued its annual report Tuesday documenting journalist deaths in 21 countries in 2014.

It says local journalists continue to be the most targeted, but that 23 percent of those killed were international journalists. By comparison, the local press makes up 90 percent of the CPJ’s database of journalist deaths dating back to 1992.

The report attributes the uptick to the “increasingly …read more

Source: Voice of America

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