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Deadly trends for journalists in 2011; 103 killed

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]

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Somali television journalist killed

A Somali television journalist was shot dead in Mogadishu on Sunday by a man wearing the military uniform of the Transitional National Government (TNG). Reuters and other news outlets said that an unknown assailant armed with an AK-47 opened fire on Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, known to colleagues as “Xiis”, shooting him several times in the […]

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Grenade attack on radio station in Puntland

Unknown assailants armed with hand grenades bombed the Radio Galkayo station in Galkayo, Puntland on 18 October, the latest in a series of attacks on journalists in the self-governing region, which is officially a part of Somalia. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reports that the bomb was thrown from the back fence of […]

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SPECIAL FEATURE: Attacks on the media are attacks on the “material interests of the poor”

In 1991, CNN took a bold step when it took  cameras to Teferi Ber refugee camp in Ethiopia, near the Somalia border, to film a series on the famine that everyone expected to happen that summer. At the time, Will King, CNN senior international editor, told the Los Angeles Times that he hoped the information […]

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