{"id":3684,"date":"2014-12-29T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:45:30","slug":"journalists-under-attack-around-the-world-inside-story-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Journalists under attack around the world – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalists under attack around the world – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The past year was a difficult one for journalists. The number of attacks and kidnappings of media workers soared. Carefully staged murders of reporters\u00a0became all too common. And governments around the world increasingly used national security as an excuse to detain journalists and stifle criticism of their actions.<\/p>\n

Some countries were more dangerous for journalists than others. The Middle East, and Syria in particular, was the\u00a0worst place\u00a0to be a\u00a0journalist. China, Iran and Eritrea were among the countries that imprisoned the most journalists.<\/p>\n

Freedom House says press freedom around the world is at its lowest level in a decade.<\/p>\n

Inside Story takes a look at why the profession has got so dangerous, and what it will take to ensure journalists\u00a0do their jobs\u00a0safely.<\/p>\n

Presenter<\/strong>: Hazem Sika
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Journalists under attack around the world – Inside Story – Al Jazeera English. The past year was a difficult one for journalists. The number of attacks and kidnappings of media workers soared. Carefully staged murders of reporters\u00a0became all too common. And governments around the world increasingly used national security as an excuse to detain journalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2239,462,938],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-journalism","tag-press-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}