Attacks on Journalists Rose in 2012, Group Finds

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Report Sees Journalists Increasingly Under Attack

The Committee to Protect Journalists said 70 news workers were killed on the job last year, a 43 percent rise from 2011.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/world/attacks-on-journalists-rose-in-2012-group-finds.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

“It’s a sad year for press freedom,” Robert Mahoney, the group’s deputy director, said at a news conference held at the United Nations. “From Mexico to Syria, Russia to Pakistan, journalists on the front lines are confronting violence and repression as never before.”

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