A recent report from Reporters Without Borders has concluded that journalist deaths rose by 8 percent this year 2018. Hatred whipped up by “unscrupulous politicians”contributed to the increase, the organization said.

A total of 80 journalists were killed in the first 11 months of 2018, while 348 were in prison and 60 more were being held hostage, according to figures from Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

RSF report, which was released on Tuesday, said 49 of those killed between January 1 and the start of December had been murdered or were deliberately targeted with violence.
The nongovernmental organization said the murders of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and Slovak data journalist Jan Kuciak “highlighted the lengths to which press freedom’s enemies are prepared to go.”

Violence against journalists has reached unprecedented levels this year, and the situation is now critical,” the organization’s head, Christophe Deloire, said in a statement which accompanied the report’s release.
“The hatred of journalists that is voiced, and sometimes very openly proclaimed, by unscrupulous politicians, religious leaders, and businessmen, has tragic consequences on the ground, and has been reflected in this disturbing increase in violations against journalists.”
Deloire added that social media networks “bear heavy responsibility” as they amplified expressions of hatred that “legitimize violence, thereby undermining journalism, and democracy itself, a bit more every day.”
China remains the biggest jailer of journalists with 60 currently being held, according to RSF. A majority of them are non-professional journalists, who the report says “are being held in often inhuman conditions for nothing more than a post on social networks or messaging services.”

Afghanistan was the world’s deadliest country for journalists and media members in 2018 with 15 deaths, the report said. Nine of the deaths occurred during a double bombing on April 30, which was the world’s deadliest attack on reporters since the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. That attack killed 32 journalists.
https://insiderpostonline./2018/12/18/more-journalist-killed-this-year-than-ever-81-dead-journalists-without-borders/

This is so sad!

That's one of the riskiest jobs after the military
Except for the unscrupulous ones that live on envelopes
Just my opinion