As many as 85 journalists were shot dead worldwide last year and 17 died in bomb blasts, a new report by the UK-based International News Safety Institute (INSI) has revealed.
Syria was the most dangerous country for journalists for the second consecutive year, while Iraq, Philippines, Pakistan and India were among the countries most unsafe for reporters.
IBTimesUK pays tribute to photographers and reporters killed, injured or harassed doing their jobs in hostile environments.
People try to help cameraman Andrade Santiago after he was hit on the head by a flare during a protest against fare rises on the Brazilian public transport system, in Rio de Janeiro on February 6, 2014. He was in a coma for several days before he diedReutersSyrian activist and photographer Molhem Barakat died on 20 December 2013, as he took photographs of a battle over Kindi Hospital in Aleppo, between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-AssadReutersWounded Reuters photographer Gleb Garanich, who was injured by riot police, takes pictures at Independence Square in Kiev on November 30, 2013ReutersWounded journalist Antonio Mendoza Quintero is wheeled on a stretcher by medics at a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 12, 2013. He was wounded in a drive-by shootingReutersA Turkish riot policeman pushes a photographer during a protest at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 11, 2013ReutersYara Abbas, a reporter for the al-Ikhbariya news channel, was killed by sniper fire near the Lebanese-Syrian border on 27 May 2013ReutersPhotographers cower as protesters and riot police clash near Tahrir Square in Cairo on January 25, 2013 REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh - RTR3CXMOReutersAyman al-Sahili, a Reuters cameraman, reacts as he was shot in the leg while filming on the front-line in Aleppo by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad on 31 December 2012ReutersWheelchair-bound Palestinian freelance photographer Moamen Qreiqea takes pictures of protesters in Gaza City on October 1, 2012. Qreiqea, 25, lost both his legs in an Israeli air strike in 2008ReutersA policeman strikes AFP photojournalist Patricia Melo during a general strike in Lisbon on March 22, 2012Reuters(Left) French photographer Remi Ochlik and (right) American Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin were killed on February 22, 2012 in the besieged Syrian city of Homs when rockets fired by government forces hit the house they were staying inReutersA riot policeman punches Greek photojournalist Tatiana Bolari during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagma square on October 5, 2011Reuters(Left) Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros and (right) Oscar-nominated film-maker and photographer Tim Hetherington were killed on 20 April 2011 by a rocket-propelled grenade in the besieged Libyan town of MisrataGetty / ReutersInjured British photojournalist Guy Martin is tended to by paramedics upon arriving in Malta from Misrata in Libya, on April 26, 2011. Martin, a photographer working with Panos Pictures agency, was injured in the same attack that killed Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Misrata on April 20ReutersJournalists, including New York Times photographers Tyler Hicks and Lynsey Addario, Getty Images photographer John Moore, freelance photographer Holly Pickett and freelancer Philip Poupin run for cover during a bombing run by Libyan government planes near the oil refinery of Ras Lanuf on March 11, 2011. Hicks and Addario were captured by pro-Gaddafi forces and released after six daysReutersA member of the press lies on the ground after being attacked by a mob in Cairo on 3 February 2011. The United States and Britain condemned the intimidation of foreign reporters covering protests against President Hosni MubarakReutersPart of the last video footage taken by Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto before he was shot in the chest in Bangkok on April 10, 2010Reuters
