Journalists who were killed in 2014 because of their work included an unusually high proportion of foreign correspondents who had been covering conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Afghanistan, a leading news media advocacy group said in an annual report released Tuesday.
The group, New York’s Committee to Protect Journalists, also said in the report that Syria, increasingly consumed by civil war since 2011, remained the world’s deadliest country for journalists for the third consecutive year.
The annual report is regarded as a gauge of the physical hazards confronting journalists who report not only on conflict zones, but also on politics, …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
