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APPENDIX 2Deaths of journalists and media workers1990-2002tists and onlookers, on June 2 1991. They had been recording along-running eruption at Mount Unzen, Japan, when a spurt ofmolten lava rushed down on them before they had time to escape.In the same year, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines killed about750 people, including some journalists stationed at a supposedlysafe distance. Lack of information, uncertainty over future eventsand competition to get closer are all factors that push journalistscloser to a volcano edge, literally and metaphorically.The charts give a breakdown of deaths according to where theyhappened in the world, and what kind of journalist or media workerwas killed. Again, there are problems with definitions. Is someonewho owns a radio station, but occasionally goes on air, an executiveor a reporter? On small newspapers editors are hands-onworking journalists. On large newspapers they may be remote executives.Some people are listed as freelances, while others doing thesame work may be described as photographers. Again, we need tobe careful with the figures. However, they give a fairly robust guideto the pattern of deaths.We print one specialised list covering 274 of the 1,192 deaths —those journalists who died in what can be called ‘war zones’. Thisunderlines some key messages from the book: how many mediaworkers die in their own countries, how many freelances are killed,how many people are shot, bombed, blown-up and ambushed.More than 70% of those killed were working in their ‘home’ country(depending on the definition of home). Of the 274 people listedhere, at least 15 are women (gender was not always recorded).This list does not include those who are murdered or targetedoutside conflict zones, and clearly this is a matter of debatable definition.Journalists so brutally murdered in Algeria, Sri Lanka,Colombia, or the Ukraine could all be on this list. The line wasdrawn where there was an identifiable war zone.For various reasons we included only one name for each journaliston this list. No disrespect is intended. There are also bound to besome errors in this list, and, as every journalist knows, the mostoffensive place to make a mistake is in an obituary. One piece ofinformation that can be sensitive is a journalist’s nationality, andin many cases the records do not show this. Where we have madean assumption as to nationality we have placed that in italics andin brackets. The IFJ would welcome any corrections. Please notifysafety@ifj.org.Peter McIntyre122
Live News — A Survival Guide for JournalistsFigure 1: Who has been killed? 1990-2002500441450Due to lack of information in some cases, not all the1,192 journalists killed between 1990 and 2002 areincluded in these charts. However, Figure 1 includes75% of all deaths and Figure 2 covers more than 85%.400350300250200150100500118 11274 6447 37Reporters Editors Media Unknown Freelance Camera Photographers StringersWorkersOperators4Figure 2: How did they die? 1990-2002Other/ Unclear20%206 deathsMurdered53%534 deaths274 deathsWar27%CAUSES OF DEATH‘Other’ deaths includecircumstances where it is notclear why a journalist or mediaworker was targeted (as was thecase with some deaths inRwanda in 1994), and deaths asa result of work-relatedaccidents. The chart shows thatmore than half of the deaths aredue to violence and conflictwithin countries, where there isno open ‘war’ at the time.Journalists who are murdered orkilled because of their work,outnumber those killed in battlezones by nearly two to one.123
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IntroductionOver the past 12 years
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