Reports
IFJ Annual Reports on
Journalists and Media Staff Killed
Over the past 12 years more than 1,100 journalists and media staff have been killed in the line of duty. They died because someone did not like what they wrote or said, because someone did not like journalists or simply because they were in the wrong place in the wrong time.
Every job has its risks, and journalists, whose job is to bring into the open what someone wants hidden, are at greater risk than most. But the risks today are unacceptably high. In some parts of the world harassment, threats and worse have become an unavoidable part of the job. When reporting on war or civil conflict the risks escalate and journalists lose their lives.
The IFJ has campaigned for many years for greater safety and for a focus on the in-country journalists and freelances who are at greatest risk and who have the least protection.
The IFJ publishes an annual report in which it documents the cases of journalists and media staff killed during the course of each year.