The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released their 2011 Impunity Index, ranking the “perceived danger of the world’s nations based on the unsolved number of journalist murders”.
Not much of a surprise to find Iraq still at number one, nor Somalia taking third place. Nearby Mexico was ranked number eight, with the majority of deaths occurring along the northern border tier.
While the CPJ in of itself is an important and informative read, PhotoShelter worked with some of their photographers and posted a good feature with stories and insight into the locations. They also featured Libya – which was not included as the CPJ list runs up to January 1, 2011. Due to the spectacular loss of journalists in this conflict it was added to the PhotoShelter list, and for good cause.
Read it.
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