Your post prompted me to try and find out just how many journalists have died while working in Iraq. I found this site, and not only does it list those who have died in Iraq, but includes every death including date of death, name and sometimes age, and a short write up on the circumstances behind their death wherever they died around the world.
In each case, the cause of death was as varied as there are journalists working in places of conflict.
These records...which date back to 1997.......are being kept and posted on line by the International Press Institute.
78 JOURNALISTS KILLED IN 2004
KILLING FIELDS
By Michael Kudlak
Seventy-eight journalists and media staffers were killed worldwide in 2004, making it one of the worst years since IPI began recording the killing of journalists.
Not since 1999, when 86 journalists were killed, have so many journalists died in a single year. At least 23 journalists and media workers died in Iraq alone. Twelve journalists were murdered in the Philippines, five in Bangladesh, four in Mexico, and three each in Brazil, India, Nepal and Russia. Journalists were also killed in 18 other countries. Most of these murders were committed with impunity.
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