Journalists killed in retaliation for their reporting doubles in 2020, new report says
December 28, 2020 Ryan Morgan
The number of journalists killed in retaliation for their reporting more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a U.S.-based press freedom watchdog organization.
In total, CPJ recorded at least 31 journalists killed in the line of their work in 2020, with 21 killed as a reprisal for their reporting activity, more than double the 10 killed in 2019. Three journalists were caught and killed in a crossfire while reporting from warzones in 2020 and six were killed as a hazard of a dangerous assignment.
CPJ said it was also investigating the deaths of 15 more journalists worldwide to determine whether reprisal for their reporting was a motive that led to their deaths.
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