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Nov 9, 2009
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Deadliest Countries for Journalists

Each year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) publishes a list of journalists killed while on assignment. The following list does not include those who were killed in accidents, such as car or plane crashes, unless the accident was caused by hostile action. The following statistics indicate where the most deaths occurred between 1996 and 2008.

Country Number
of deaths,
1996–2008
Iraq 135
Algeria 60
Russia 49
Colombia 40
Philippines 39
India 24
Somalia 23
Pakistan 20
Bosnia 19
Turkey 19
Afghanistan 17
Circumstances: murder: 265; crossfire in war: 67; reporting in other dangerous circumstances: 39. Demographic traits: female journalists: 20; photographers and camera operators: 82; radio journalists: 62; U.S. journalists: 9.
Source: The Committee to Protect Journalists, www.cpj.org.

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