{"id":2377,"date":"2013-02-13T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2013-02-13T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T20:06:10","slug":"journalism-a-dangerous-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism: A Dangerous Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-map1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2381\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-map1.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-map1-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>Journalism is a very dangerous profession. Many journalists are killed every year around the world while covering everything from business and sports to revolutions, wars, political upheavals, corruption, human rights violations and more.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 alone, 103 journalists were killed around the globe. Motives were confirmed for 70 of them. The deadliest countries for journalists in 2012 were Syria (28 deaths), Somalia (12 deaths), Pakistan (7 deaths), and Brazil (4 deaths). The motives where the confirmed in these cases.<\/p>\n<p>The way journalists are killed, range from crossfire or combat to murder. Impunity is a shocking 100% for murder cases. More detail in the chart below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-chart2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-chart2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-chart2.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/journalists-killed-in-2012-chart2-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a>For additional information, including the list of the journalists killed in 2012, visit:<em><a href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/killed\/2012\/\"> Committee to Protect Journalists: 70 Journalists Killed in 2012\/Motive Confirmed <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism is a very dangerous profession. Many journalists are killed every year around the world while covering everything from business and sports to revolutions, wars, political upheavals, corruption, human rights violations and more. In 2012 alone, 103 journalists were killed around the globe. Motives were confirmed for 70 of them. The deadliest countries for journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Journalism: A Dangerous Profession' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/13\/journalism-a-dangerous-profession\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,47,93,31,32,8,19,30],"tags":[1360,175,639,667,558,1364,668,501,669,265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}