The AIB covered, in its recent edition of The Channel magazine, the International News Safety Institute’s figure of 130 journalists and support staff killed trying to cover the news in 2009.
But new stories from 2010 are once again highlighting the risks for journalists from various dangers. From Haiti reports indicate the death of 26 journalists while Radio Free Europe has the story of a Russian journalist’s death in police custody.
Meanwhile the identification of a photographer among the bodies from the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines takes last’s death toll yet higher.
These are further reminders, if we needed any, of the debt we owe to those who often risk their lives to help us to make sense of our world.