Record number of journalists killed in 2024: report

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Record number of journalists killed in 2024: report

A record number of journalists were killed in 2024, according to a report by US non-profit organisation Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed, with nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed in Israel’s war in Gaza, the CPJ said.

“The toll of conflict on the press is most glaring in the unprecedented number of journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war, 85 in 2024, and 78 in 2023.”

The CPJ said the number of conflicts globally – whether political, criminal or military in nature – had doubled in the past five years.

“All of the 2024 killings point to the increased dangers facing reporters and media workers – and the threat that poses to the flow of information worldwide.”

Outside of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, CPJ documented the killing of 39 other journalists and media workers in 16 nations, with the deadliest being Sudan, Pakistan, Mexico, Syria, Myanmar, Iraq and Haiti.

It is the highest toll since the CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. The previous record was 113 journalists killed in 2007, during the Iraq War.

“Conditions can grow more lethal for the press when those who kill journalists are not held to account. And fewer journalists means less information for citizens seeking the truth,” the CPJ warned.

Forty-three of those killed in 2024 were freelancers, “another grim new record for self-employed members of the press who often face the most danger because they have the fewest resources,” the CPJ said.

Thirty-one of those freelancers were killed in Gaza, more than double the 14 killed in 2023.

Under international humanitarian law, journalists are considered civilians and targeting them in a conflict is a war crime.

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