Sixty-nine journalists were killed around the world on the job in 2015. Twenty-eight of them were slain by Islamic militant groups, including al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. AP correspondent Nicki Mayo reports.
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Family members of journalists killed in the Maguindanao massacre hold hands while singing “Our Father” during a funeral in General Santos city in southern Philippines December 4, 2009. Philippine soldiers using metal detectors, sniffer dogs and an excavator unearthed more than a dozen crates of bullets Friday in the mansion of a local mayor linked to last week’s massacre of 57 people, a spokesman said. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (PHILIPPINES CONFLICT CRIME LAW) COURTESY: Committee to Protect Journalists.
