2020 reported double the number of reporters killed for their Journalism, report
2020 reported double the number of reporters killed for their Journalism, report
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An international media watchdog group said on Tuesday that the number of journalists killed as a result of their work more than doubled in 2020, with armed conflict and gang violence making Mexico and Afghanistan as the deadliest countries for reporters across the globe. The year reported death of at least 30 journalists as per the watchdog group, the Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ report. 

21 of those killings carried out as a direct response to the reporters’ work, compared to 10 in 2019. Joel Simon, the CPJ’s executive director, said in a statement, “It’s appalling that the murders of journalists have more than doubled in the last year, and this escalation represents a failure of the international community to confront the scourge of impunity". According to the report, the number of deaths related to conflict fell to its lowest level since 2000. But still, fewer journalists were caught in the crossfire of war in 2020, at least four were killed because of their work in Syria and Afghanistan. 

Mexico stands as the deadliest country in the Western Hemisphere, with four journalists assassinated and a fifth gunned down while reporting on a crime scene.  Jan-Albert Hootsen, the CPJ’s Mexico representative said, “We still have the same situation of impunity, of violence, of collusion between authorities and criminal groups, and that makes us very concerned". 

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