Not Just Khashoggi: Reprisal Killings of Journalists Surged This Year – The New York Times

Not Just Khashoggi: Reprisal Killings of Journalists Surged This Year

At least 53 journalists were killed worldwide in 2018, most of them targeted because of their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/world/middleeast/journalist-deaths-2018.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Reprisal killings of journalists because of their work nearly doubled in 2018, bringing the total number of journalists killed on the job to the highest point in three years, a press advocacy group reported on Wednesday.