One of the “commenters”:http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2007/05/dmitry_chebotayev_russian_phot.php#comment-211984 in the “post about Dmitry”:http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/2007/05/dmitry_chebotayev_russian_phot.php below wanted to know how many jour­nal­ists who had died in Iraq were for­eign and how many were Iraqi. Well, the Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists has just such a list.
Of the 101 jour­nal­ists killed in Iraq, 79 were Iraqi. The oth­ers included 12 Euro­peans, three from other Arab coun­tries, two from the United States and five from all other coun­tries.
That the vast major­ity of jour­nal­ists killed — as well as the “38 media workers”:http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/iraq_media_killed.html, which includes trans­la­tors and the like — are Iraqi is sig­nif­i­cant. Like the Iraqi civil­ians, the local jour­nal­ists there are the ones who are most affected by the vio­lence that per­me­ates their coun­try.
Four­teen jour­nal­ists died in 2003, the year of the inva­sion and the tra­jec­tory has been mostly point­ing up in the num­ber of deaths each year: 24 in 2004, 23 in 2005, 32 in 2006 and now 8 in 2007.
For a cap­sule account of each jour­nal­ist who was killed, here are the links:
* “for 2007″:http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed07.html#iraq
* “for 2006″:http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed06.html#iraq
* “for 2005″:http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/2005_list.html#iraq
* “for 2004″:http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/2004_list.html#iraq
* “for 2003″:http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed_archives/2003_list.html#iraq
(Note, the links include jour­nal­ists killed in places other than Iraq as well.)