Article December 2, 2019 Issue

Defending journalistic freedom

Rosalie E. Dunbar

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column, July 12, 2019.

Each morning, I listen for a thump at my front door, which indicates the local newspaper has arrived. I don’t always agree with the paper’s editorial positions, but I never think about injuring or killing any of the writers!

Tragically, not everyone thinks this way. According to UNESCO’s tracking of journalistic freedom, from 2006 to 2016 close to 930 journalists were killed for reporting the news. 

While some are “outsiders,” nine out of ten victims are citizens of the country where they are killed, and these figures don’t include the many cases of harassment or injury inflicted on journalists. This year the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed November 2 as “International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.”

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