The annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists says at least sixty-five journalists were killed around the world last year, the most since 1994. Robert Mahoney of the Committee to Protect Journalists says most of the killings were deliberate murders.

Robert Mahoney: “It’s one of the most dangerous years to be a journalist in well over a decade. We have documented sixty-five journalists’ deaths. We have another twenty-three that we’re still investigating. That’s the highest since the wars in Rwanda and Algeria. And 75 percent of those journalists who were killed were deliberately murdered; they were targeted. They weren’t caught in crossfire in a war. So it shows that being a journalist is an extremely dangerous profession these days.”

Thirty-two journalists were killed in Iraq, matching the Iraq total from 2006.