Most Journalist Deaths in a Decade Reported

At least 53 journalists were killed while doing their job or for expressing their opinion in 2004, making it the profession’s deadliest year in a decade, press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders said.

Iraq was the world’s most dangerous country for journalists, with 19 reporters and 12 media assistants being killed there, the Paris-based group said.

It said exposing corruption and reporting on organized crime were the next main reasons for journalists being killed, citing six incidents in the Philippines and four in Bangladesh.