Ersa Siregar - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists

One of the 850 journalists killed since 1992.  She died reporting the news for all of us.  The least any of us can do is take a look at her bio at the Committee to Protect Journalists and learn who this brave woman was.

Lynsey Addario: Before She Went Missing

From the Daily Beast:

Lynsey Addario, a veteran war photographer who shot Newsweek’s recent cover on George Clooney, is among the four Western journalists who disappeared in Libya. Listen to a moving telephone account from just before she vanished.

The New York Times on Wednesday reported that four of its journalists working in Libya were missing, including Lynsey Addario, a prize-winning war photographer who has covered Afghanistan and the Middle East for more than a decade.

The American photographer, who travels nearly 300 days of the year for her work, was briefly kidnapped in 2004 while on assignment in Iraq. Participating remotely in a Daily Beast conference last week, she gave a moving telephone account of her working circumstances for a panel on Women on the Frontlines.

The Bahraini National Guard arrest a man believed to be a journalist as he walked towards Pearl Square in the Bahraini capital Manama on Wednesday, March 16.

Credit: Joseph Eid / AFP - Getty Images

“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you’re at it.”
– Horace Greeley

One of the 850 journalists killed since 1992. She died reporting the news for all of us. The least any of us can do is take a look at her bio at the Committee to Protect Journalists and learn who this brave woman was.

Al Jazeera staffer killed in Libya - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Ali Hassan Al Jaber was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town after filing a report from an opposition protest when unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues were travelling in.

Anna Politkovskaya - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists

One of the 850 journalists killed since 1992.  She died reporting the news for all of us.  The least any of us can do is take a look at her bio at the Committee to Protect Journalists and learn who this brave woman was.

Zahra Kazemi - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists

One of the 850 journalists killed since 1992.  She died reporting the news for all of us.  The least any of us can do is take a look at her bio at the Committee to Protect Journalists and learn who this brave woman was.

María José Bravo - Journalists Killed - Committee to Protect Journalists

One of the 850 journalists killed since 1992.  She died reporting the news for all of us.  The least any of us can do is take a look at her bio at the Committee to Protect Journalists and learn who this brave woman was.