Committee to Protect Journalists says 70 reporters were slain in 2013,
including 29 in Syria
The Canadian Press - 2 hrs ago
NEW YORK, N.Y. - At least 70 journalists were killed on the job around
the world in 2013, including 29 who died covering the civil war in
Syria and 10 slain in Iraq, according to the Committee to Protect
Journalists.
The dead in Syria included a number of citizen journalists working to
document combat in their home cities, broadcasters who worked with
media outlets affiliated with either the government or the opposition,
and a handful of correspondents for the foreign press, including an
Al-Jazeera reporter, Mohamed al-Mesalma, who was shot by a sniper.
Six journalists died in Egypt. Half of those reporters were killed
while reporting an Aug. 14 crackdown by Egyptian security forces on
demonstrators protesting the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
"The Middle East has become a killing field for journalists. While the
number of journalists killed for their work has declined in some
places, the civil war in Syria and a renewal of sectarian attacks in
Iraq have taken an agonizing toll," the committee's deputy director,
Robert Mahoney, said in a statement. "The international community must
prevail on all governments and armed groups to respect the civilian
status of reporters and to prosecute the killers of journalists."
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has been tracking
deaths among reporters and broadcasters since 1992.
Most of the killings it has documented over the years involve people
covering the news in the places where they live. That was the case, as
well, in 2013.
Many of the deaths occurred during combat, or among reporters covering
conflict zones, but journalists in several countries were also
murdered after reporting on sensitive subjects.
Reporters and commentators who covered police misconduct, political
corruption or drug trafficking and other sensitive topics were slain
in separate incidents in Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines, India,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Russia.
A pair of Radio France Internationale journalists were abducted and
killed after meeting with a leader of ethnic Tuareg separatists in
Kidal, Mali. Militants in Iraq killed five members of the news staff
of Salaheddin TV in a suicide attack this month on the channel's
offices in Tikrit, Iraq.
For the first time in a decade, no journalists were known to have been
killed for their work in Mexico.
The CPJ is still looking into the deaths of an additional 25
journalists in 2013, not included in the tally of 70, to determine
whether their deaths had anything to do with their work.
To date, at least 63 journalists have been killed covering the
conflict in Syria, the CPJ's report said — and that tally may
understate the problem. Sixty journalists have been abducted in Syria
this year alone. Thirty are still missing.
11 comments

If they were true and professional journalists they wouldn't be
getting themselves killed; most of these so called self-claimed
"journalists" are nothing more than BS artists, liars and self-claimed
"bloggers", shytte-stirrers and spies too; particularly the middle
eastern ones. Maybe they should stand back and out of the way, keep
their mouths shut and just do the job of reporting FACTS, they are not
soldiers, they are not that intelligent or skilled and have no
business being in a war zone and expecting any kind of safety or
sanctuary; that's not even realistic.
CanadianBayda, 4 hrs ago

These kind of jobs are high risk. And if we would not have these
reporters on the battle fields or in close proximity, we would not get
our info, now, would we. And then we would all complain, that we get
no info from the battle fields and we do want to know, what goes on in
the world, because it effects us just as much! So give credit, where
credit is due. And yes, I fully agree, this is a high risk job and may
all these departed souls of the reporters rest in peace and my
condolences to all the families. God bless you all and have a Happy
New Year.
mw, 7 hrs ago

We could use some culling of the herd in Toronto. I think some of the
dumbest work there.
Neil, 5 hrs ago

War Corespondent, the most dangerous job in the world. There are other
jobs such as crab fisherman and so on, but WC made a list on a TV
documentary. I think it was last year, a Canadian corespondent who
resided in Vancouver was killed when the humvee she was ridding in was
blown up by a IED launching the vehicle skyward and landing on its
roof.
WhatMakesSence, 7 hrs ago

"Group says 70 journalists were slain in 2013, including 29 in Syria"
. What kind of news is this. What Group? Who are the Group. Why isn't
this news more specific. GARBAGE
Hillucinaters, 9 hrs ago
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