That is 17 more killed than were in 2019 (49), and bring the total to 2680 journalists and media workers who lost their lives to violence in the world since 1990, when the IFJ started publishing these annual reports to highlight the deepening safety crisis in the media.
The figures published by the Federation for this year show that the number of media professionals’ killings are more or less on the same levels as in 1990s.