Every year, for decades, journalists from print, radio, or television media have dominated the ranks of those targeted for murder or otherwise killed on the job–every year, that is, until 2008, when a new era began. The same year that Facebook gained 100 million users and Twitter began seeing exponential growth, online journalists around the world began getting killed and imprisoned at rates never before seen. Today, more than one-third of all journalists being killed, and almost half of all journalists being jailed, were working online when they were targeted.
Frank Smyth, CPJ’s senior advisor on journalist security, details the increasing attacks on online journalists in recent years.
Smyth presented at ONA12 on the risks of reporting among conflict. Video from the session and notes are available on the ONA12 site.
(Source: cpj.org)
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