2012 'deadliest year' for journalists: Report

January 01, 2013 00:45

Last year was the 'deadliest year for journalists', said the International Press Institute today, with the highest number of deaths recorded since the media watchdog began its annual tally.

The year had 'been marked by an appalling and disturbing truth: an unprecedented 132 journalists were killed in the line of duty or as a consequence of their reporting in 2012', the IPI said in a statement posted to its website.

The previous highest figure had been 110 deaths in 2009. Last year, 102 journalists were killed.

"It is almost unbelievable that so many journalists have died this year," IPI executive director Alison Bethel McKenzie said. At least 31 journalists and eight citizen reporters died in Syria alone in 2012, while 16 others died in Somalia.

The Vienna-based watchdog began tracking deaths in 1997.

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