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A short blog post on the horrendous casualties suffered by journalists
Jaume Plensa’s Breathing memorial sculpture on the roof of the Peel Wing at BBC Broadcasting House in London. It commemorates journalists and media workers who have been killed doing their job. Photo by Briantist at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Sfan00 IMG using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4540755
So far this year, 27 journalists have been killed while doing their jobs, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Nearly all of them died doing dangerous assignments on the ground in Israel and the Occupied Territories, although a couple of journalists covering the conflict were murdered. Another journalist in Myanmar has also been murdered.
Whatever you think about Israel/Palestine, it should be obvious that there are far too many media casualties. War correspondents people deliberately and knowingly put themselves in harm’s way in order to bear witness to violent conflicts. Their presence on the ground shines a bright light in some of the world’s darkest place. Without them, there would be many more atrocities in the world’s worst places.
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The International Federation of Journalists’ Safety Fund
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