UN Urged to Act After Journalist Deaths Hit 10-Year High

By Chris Harris

This year has been the deadliest in a decade for journalists, with reporters increasingly killed away from the battlefield, new data shows.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says 110 journalists were killed in 2015, up from 66 last year.

RSF said nearly two-thirds of journalists who died in 2015 were killed in countries supposedly at peace, 

despite the traditional assumption that war reporting is the most dangerous role. 

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Source: Euronews