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Global community honors journalists killed on duty

Published on 04/05/2010

The names of 88 journalists, including 6 Russians, who died while on assignment last year, were announced in a ceremony in the Newseum in Washington on Monday. The event crucially coincided with the Day of World Press Freedom. A total of 2,007 reporters, photographers, broadcasters and news executives were killed across the globe in previous years.