Report Shows 2007 to be a Deadly Year for Journalists
By Ryan • Feb 14th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyStory by Laura Nathan of PDNonline.com:
“Photojournalists faced a dangerous year in 2007, with violence claiming the lives of photographers in Iraq, Haiti and Myanmar, according to a new report from Reporters Without Borders.
Including these photographers, 87 journalists were killed on the job in 2007, according to the Reporters Without Borders 2008 Annual Report, released Wednesday. Not since 1994 has the death toll been that high.
Forty-seven of the killings occurred in Iraq, which was the site of 41 journalist deaths in 2006.
The sole foreign journalist killed in Iraq was Russian photographer Dimitri Chebotayev, who had been embedded with the U.S. military. He was killed by a bomb explosion in Diyala province in May.“
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