Record Imprisonments, Impunity for Murders: Can Press Freedom Watchdogs Even Keep Up?

In recent years, CPJ has returned to using less precise language like “killings” to refer to murders whenever discussing them in the aggregate. It’s the kind of euphemism preferred by despots like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Murdering with Impunity: The Rise in Terror Tactics Against News Reporters

More journalists were killed last year than ever before. No doubt the world has become a more dangerous, but not necessarily in ways that people might expect.