Join CPJ in marking World Radio Day

Join CPJ in marking World Radio Day

NEW YORK, 12 February 2016 / PRN Africa / -- On World Radio Day this Saturday, CPJ is paying tribute to the vital role radio journalists play in bringing their communities news and commentary, sometimes at great personal cost. Seventeen radio journalists were killed for their work last year. Africa and the Americas were the most dangerous regions for radio journalists, with Brazil and South Sudan tied for deadliest country. On a single day, January 25, four radio journalists and a camera operator were ambushed and killed in South Sudan. There have been no arrests in the case more than a year later. Four journalists were also killed in Brazil, three of them local journalists covering corruption; and the fourth, a Paraguayan, covering politics. Among them was Gleydson Carvalho, who was shot dead while presenting his radio program. His murder came a year after Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff told CPJ her administration is committed to addressing attacks on journalists and ending the cycle of impunity for their murders.


SOURCE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)


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