By Henrik Kaufholz
2,294 journalists have been killed worldwide during the period 2000 – 2016, and the trend is increasing. That’s according to a whole new study from the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab at Vienna University, which is larger than in all previous overviews by non governmental organisations (NGOs) working with journalists.
Killed journalists
'We have all those deaths that have been publicly reported," says the leader of the study "Killings of Journalists Worldwide: The Full Costs of a Free Press", Professor Katharine Sarikakis, Vienna University. "We have conducted individual research on each of the 2,294 journalists, because it quickly…
